ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,871, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Systems for skin patch gravity resistance" was invented by Jasson Rodriguez (Rosemead, Calif.), Ellis Garai (Studio City, Calif.), Ravi R. Deverkadra (Simi Valley, Calif.), Sara M. Voisin (Chatsworth, Calif.) and Jacob E. Pananen (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for a physiological characteristic sensor deployed with a sensor inserter includes an adhesive skin patch coupled to the physiological characteristic sensor. The adhesive patch is to couple the physiological characteristic sensor to an anatomy. The system also i...