ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,732, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Canada).

"Alert management based on sleeping status" was invented by Lavie Golenberg (Singapore), Louis J. Lintereur (Boise, Idaho), Benyamin Grosman (Winnetka, Calif.), Di Wu (Palo Alto, 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 generally to alert management based on sleeping status. In some embodiments, the techniques involve obtaining user status data indicative of a sleeping status of a user of a medical device, and controlling alert generation and output associated with the...