ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,978, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to DEXCOM INC. (San Diego).

"Membrane layers for analyte sensors" was invented by Shanger Wang (San Diego), Robert J. Boock (Carlsbad, Calif.), Andrew Trinin Dennis (La Jolla, Calif.), Ted Tang Lee (San Diego), Jeff T. Suri (Fallbrook, Calif.), David Sze (San Diego), Mark A. Tapsak (Bloomsburg, Pa.), Huashi Zhang (San Diego) and Jiong Zou (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices for determining an analyte concentration (e.g., glucose). The devices comprise a sensor configured to generate a signal associated with a concentration of an analyte and a sensing membrane located ov...