US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on Jan. 20 for "Ketone limiting membrane and dual layer membrane approach for ketone sensing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,500, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Ketone limiting membrane and dual layer membrane approach for ketone sensing" was invented by Jenn-Hann L. Wang (Northridge, Calif.), Anna J. Miller (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Chi-En Lin (Encino, Calif.), Melissa Tsang (Los Angeles), Akhil Srinivasan (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Quyen B. Ong (Arcadia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides amperometric analyte sensor systems comprising one or more electrodes designed to monitor in vivo levels of 3-hydroxybutyrate (and optionally glucose as well) in order to facilitate the manage...