ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,139, issued on May 13, was assigned to Insulet Corp. (Acton, Mass.).
"Infusion pump systems and methods" was invented by Mark C. Estes (Malibu, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of an infusion pump system can be used to determine a user's total insulin load (TIL) that provides an accurate indication of the insulin previously delivered to the user's body which has not yet acted. In particular embodiments, the TIL can account for both the bolus deliveries and the basal deliveries that have occurred over a period of time. Such information may be useful, for example, when the infusion pump is operated in conjunction ...