US Patent Issued to Medtronic MiniMed on Feb. 4 for "Nutritional content determination based on gesture detection data" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,194, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Canada).

"Nutritional content determination based on gesture detection data" was invented by Katelijn Vleugels (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein relate to nutritional content determination based on gesture detection data. In some embodiments, the techniques involve obtaining gesture detection data corresponding to consumption of a food item or a drink; determining, based on the gesture detection data, nutritional content of the food item or the drink; and causing delivery of insulin in accordance with the nutritional cont...