ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,654, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TANDEM DIABETES CARE INC. (San Diego).

"Preventing inadvertent changes in ambulatory medical devices" was invented by Michael Rosinko (Anaheim, Calif.), Geoff Kruse (San Diego), Thomas Ulrich (San Diego) and Erik Verhoef (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable medical device is operated in an active mode in which the device receives a user input at an input interface and provides the received user input to a processor of the device. The active mode is terminated and the device is operated in a safe mode, in which the received user input is not provided to the processor and/or one o...