ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,803, issued on July 7, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Analyte sensors employing multiple enzymes and methods associated therewith" was invented by Stephen Oja (Reno, Nev.), Tianmei Ouyang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hyun Cho (Berkeley, Calif.), Lam N. Tran (Danville, Calif.) and Benjamin J. Feldman (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and analyte sensors including at least a first working electrode having a first active area thereon, and performing a dip coating operation to deposit a bilayer membrane upon the first working electrode and the first active area. The bilayer may include an inner...