ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,395, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. (San Diego).

"Bolus permissions and prioritization scheme for infusion pump system" was invented by Dwight Lee (San Diego), Christoper Jung (San Diego), Amanda Lennard (San Diego) and Garrett Marin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an infusion pump system that includes a pump that may have a user interface for pump programming, one or more smartphones or other remote control devices that interface with the infusion pump, and/or an automated insulin delivery algorithm, there is a potential conflict between commands such as boluses being programmed on multiple...