ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,231, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Product consumption recommendations" was invented by Matthew N. Haggerty (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Erik R. Hoeg (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques related to product consumption recommendations. In some embodiments, the techniques may involve determining, based on glucose data of a user and activity data indicating movement of the user during an activity, a recommendation associated with a consumption of a product by the user to maintain a glucose level within a target range during the activity, and, in res...