US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on March 17 for "Analyte sensors employing multiple enzymes and methods associated therewith" (Nevada, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,769, issued on March 17, 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.), Benjamin J. Feldman (Berkeley, Calif.) and Namvar Kiaie (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple enzymes may be present in the active area(s) of an electrochemical sensor to facilitate analysis of one or more analytes. The multiple enzymes may function independently to detect several analytes or in concert to detect a single analyte. One sensor config...