US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on Feb. 4 for "Physiological characteristic sensor system" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,782, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Physiological characteristic sensor system" was invented by David C. Antonio (Montrose, Calif.), Juan M. Alderete Jr. (Granada Hills, Calif.), Matthew William Yavorsky (Granada Hills, Calif.), Manolo Colon Diaz (Aguadilla, Ore.), Eric Allan Larson (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Shixin Chen (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physiological characteristic sensor system includes a physiological characteristic sensor. The physiological characteristic sensor includes a housing having a first housing portion coupled to a second housing portion,...