ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,280, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Mountain View, Calif.) and DexCom Inc. (San Diego).
"Housing construction for snap-in retention" was invented by Arthur Lin (Fremont, Calif.) and Sean Frick (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here is an attachable unit that connects to a base unit through a snap-fitting mechanism. The attachable unit can include a top housing structure and a bottom housing structure that are ultrasonically welded together. The top housing structure can include the toe portion that is integral with remaining portions of the top housing structure, where the toe port...