ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,478, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for wireless communications in analyte monitoring systems" was invented by Michael R. Love (Pleasanton, Calif.), Michael J. Fullmer (Alameda, Calif.), Kurt E. Leno (San Leandro, Calif.), Xuandong Hua (Mountain View, Calif.), Mark Sloan (Redwood City, Calif.), Lei He (Moraga, Calif.) and Glenn Berman (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods are provided that allow for enhanced performance, power efficiency, interoperability, data security and user privacy for in vivo analyte monitoring...