ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,611, issued on May 12, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Multi-function analyte monitor device and methods of use" was invented by Marc B. Taub (Mountain View, Calif.), Nathan C. Crouther (San Francisco) and Jai Karan (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprising: an analyte sensor for receiving an analyte signal corresponding to an analyte concentration of a user; a health monitor device comprising a display unit and in communication with the analyte sensor, the health monitor device comprising a processor and memory communicably coupled to the processor, the memory including ...