ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,510, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for incorporating co-formulations of insulin in an automatic insulin delivery system" was invented by Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.), Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.) and Ashutosh Zade (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the delivery of a co-formulation of insulin and a second drug, such as GLP-1, using an automated insulin delivery system. In a first embodiment, a dose of insulin is calculated by a medication delivery algorithm and a reduction factor is applied to accou...