ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,981, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Closed loop control of physiological glucose" was invented by Yamei Chen (Carmel, Ind.), Haoda Fu (Carmel, Ind.), Parag Garhyan (Carmel, Ind.), Ahmad Haidar (Montreal), Richard Earl Jones Jr. (Plainfield, Ind.), Christopher Kovalchick (Bedford, Mass.), Marie Kearney Schiller (Wellesley, Mass.), Monica Rixman Swinney (Stoneham, Mass.) and Howard Allan Wolpert (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling physiological glucose concentrations in a patient."

The patent was filed on Jan. 4, 2...