ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,055, issued on July 15, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Canada).

"Medical device configuration procedure guidance responsive to detected gestures" was invented by Salman Monirabbasi (Playa Vista, Calif.), Di Wu (Glendale, Calif.), Neha J. Parikh (West Hills, Calif.), Yuxiang Zhong (Arcadia, Calif.) and Maria Diana Miller (Santa Rosa Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein relate to providing guidance for configuring a medical device to a user in response to detected gestures of the user. In some embodiments, the techniques involve obtaining sensor data indicative of one or more ge...