US Patent Issued to Dexcom on Nov. 3 for "Risk-adaptive telemetry and remote monitoring" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,422, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dexcom Inc. (San Diego).

"Risk-adaptive telemetry and remote monitoring" was invented by Colin Anthony Steele (San Diego) and Stephen D. Patek (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a method of communicating telemetry data employed by a risk-adaptive telemetry system, a medical device risk that a medical device will malfunction is assessed. A patient risk that the health of a patient using the medical device will fall below a predetermined acceptable level is also assessed. Telemetry data from the medical device is received, where type, amount and/or frequency of ...