ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,461, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Nonparametric glucose predictors" was invented by Simone Del Favero (Valle di Cadore, Italy), Andrea Facchinetti (Trissino, Italy), Simone Faccioli (Thiene, Italy), Gianluigi Pillonetto (Montebelluna, Italy) and Giovanni Sparacino (Padua, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting future blood glucose concentrations of an individual patient includes: identifying an individualized linear black box model of glucose-insulin by estimating a plurality of impulse response functions each accounting for an input-output relation of a plurality of individualized p...