ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,924, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Analyte sensor and a method for producing an analyte sensor" was invented by Gernot Hochmuth (Mannheim, Germany), Kirill Sliozberg (Mannheim, Germany) and Alexander Steck (Hirschberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully or partially implantable analyte sensor for continuously monitoring analyte concentration in a body fluid has a substrate with a first surface configured to face towards the body fluid. The sensor has a working electrode and an interferent electrode. The interferent electrode and the working electrode are electrically separate...