US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on Nov. 11 for "Systems for physiological characteristic monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,246, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Systems for physiological characteristic monitoring" was invented by Santhisagar Vaddiraju (Plymouth, Minn.), Bejan M. Darbandi (Chanhassen, Minn.), Nicholas S. Mairs (Minneapolis) and Brian Ross (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physiological characteristic monitoring system includes a wearable attachment device, an electronic device, and a physiological characteristic sensor (e.g., a glucose sensor) including a portion that is insertable into subcutaneous tissue of a user to generate sensor signals indicating a physiological cha...