US Patent Issued to Abbott Diabetes Care on Oct. 20 for "Analyte sensors and sensing methods for the detection of alcohol" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,816, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Abbott Diabetes Care Inc. (Alameda, Calif.).

"Analyte sensors and sensing methods for the detection of alcohol" was invented by Benjamin J. Feldman (Berkeley, Calif.), Tianmei Ouyang (Alameda, Calif.) and Ahmed Hisham Wali (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and systems for detecting alcohol concentrations of an individual, and in particular in vivo alcohol concentrations of an individual. Alcohol sensing compositions include at least one alcohol-responsive active area comprising a concerted enzyme system having at least a first enzyme and second enzyme capable o...