US Patent Issued to Medtronic MiniMed on March 4 for "Application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in sensor systems, devices, and related methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,443, issued on March 4, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy in sensor systems, devices, and related methods" was invented by Ning Yang (Los Angeles), Raghavendhar Gautham (Northridge, Calif.), Bradley C. Liang (Los Angeles) and Rajiv Shah (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) procedure is applied to measure values of impedance-related parameters for one or more sensing electrodes. The parameters may include real impedance, imaginary impedance, impedance magnitude, and/or phase...