US Patent Issued to Dexcom on July 14 for "Methods and systems for promoting glucose management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,021, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for promoting glucose management" was invented by Apurv Ullas Kamath (San Diego), Jack Pryor (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Alexandra Lynn Carlton (San Marcos, Calif.), Kristin Koenekamp Cote (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Leif N. Bowman (San Diego) and Michael Robert Mensinger (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for encouraging interactions with a glucose monitoring system include incrementing a score and/or providing a reward based on a variety of different interactions with the glucose monitoring system. The interactions which improve...