US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on June 17 for "Glucose level management based on protein content of meals" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,519, issued on June 17, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Canada).

"Glucose level management based on protein 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 exa...