US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on July 22 for "Glucose level management based on fat content of meals" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,816, issued on July 22, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Glucose level management based on fat content of meals" was invented by Boyi Jiang (Pasadena, Calif.), Yuxiang Zhong (Arcadia, Calif.), Sinu Bessy Abraham (Gallatin, Tenn.), Siddharth Arunachalam (Northridge, Calif.) and Pratik J. Agrawal (Porter Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for glucose level management are disclosed. In some examples, the techniques may involve obtaining an estimated protein value for a meal and determining an equivalent carbohydrate value for the meal based on the estimated protein value. In some example...