ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,998, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Activity mode for artificial pancreas system" was invented by Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.), Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Trang Ly (Concord, Mass.), Todd Vienneau (Mississauga, Canada), Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.) and Ashutosh Zade (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable drug delivery device, techniques, and computer-readable media that provide an application that implements a diabetes treatment plan for a user are described. The drug delivery device may include a controller operable to direct operation of the wearable drug delivery device. The control...