ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,411, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"End of life detection for analyte sensors" was invented by Naresh C. Bhavaraju (San Diego), Arturo Garcia (Chula Vista, Calif.), Hari Hampapuram (San Diego), Apurv U Kamath (San Diego), Aarthi Mahalingam (San Diego), Dmytro Sokolovsky (San Diego) and Stephen J. Vanslyke (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing sensor data and end of life detection are provided. In some embodiments, a method for determining the end of life of a continuous analyte sensor includes evaluating a plurality of risk factors using an end of life functi...