ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,844, issued on March 31, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Analyte sensors and sensing methods featuring dual detection of glucose and ketones" was invented by Benjamin J. Feldman (Berkeley, Calif.), Tianmei Ouyang (Saratoga, Calif.), Stephen M. Oja (Reno, Nev.), Lam Tran (Danville, Calif.) and Hyun Cho (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glucose and ketones may be dysregulated singularly or concurrently in certain physiological conditions and may be advantageously assayed together using an analyte sensor capable of detecting both analytes. Certain analyte sensors capable of dual detection ma...