US Patent Issued to INSULET on March 25 for "Initial total daily insulin setting for user onboarding" (Massachusetts, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,420, issued on March 25, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Initial total daily insulin setting for user onboarding" was invented by Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Mengdi Li (Westford, Mass.), Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.) and Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques to establish initial settings for an automatic insulin delivery device. An adjusted total daily insulin (TDI) factor usable to calculate a TDI dosage may be determined. The adjusted TDI factor may be a TDI per unit of a physical characteristic of the user (e.g., weight) times a reduction factor. The adjusted TDI facto...