ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,862, issued on April 22, was assigned to Senseonics Inc. (Germantown, Md.).
"Mediation of in vivo analyte signal degradation" was invented by Joon Chatterjee (Germantown, Md.), Sanat Mohanty (Germantown, Md.), Philip Huffstetler (Germantown, Md.) and Venkata Velvadapu (Germantown, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor (e.g., an optical sensor) that may be implanted within a living animal (e.g., a human) and may be used to measure an analyte (e.g., glucose or oxygen) in a medium (e.g., interstitial fluid, blood, or intraperitoneal fluid) within the animal. The sensor may include a sensor housing, an analyte indicator covering at ...