ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,599, issued on March 17, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for an analyte sensor" was invented by Jean-Pierre Cole (Tracy, Calif.), Peter Voit (Dublin, Calif.), Edward Kupa (Alameda, Calif.), Matthew Simmons (Pleasanton, Calif.), Steven Mitchell (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Timothy Frederick Smith (San Ramon, Calif.), Vivek Rao (Alameda, Calif.), Peter Robinson (Alamo, Calif.), Theodore Kunich (Pleasanton, Calif.), Anthony Joseph San Nicolas (Reno, Nev.), Louis Pace (San Carlos, Calif.), Steve Nierlich (Berkley, Calif.), Dharmendra Patel (Oxfordshire, Great Britain), Thomas Michael Meyer (Fremont, Calif.), Byron J. Lambert (Te...