ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,983, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis) and Roche Diagnostics International AG (Rotkreuz, Switzerland).

"Method for the detection and handling of hypoglycemia" was invented by Gilles Prod'hom (Bern, Switzerland), Bernhard Teupe (Bad Mergentheim, Germany), Alan Greenburg (Indianapolis) and Maury Zivitz (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described herein to detect and treat hypoglycemia. An example of this method involves the detection of hypoglycemia in a patient with a computing device, computation of a recommended carbohydrate amount to ingest by the patient with the comp...