ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,010, issued on April 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).
"Minimally invasive skin patch, method of manufacturing same, and blood glucose measuring apparatus using same" was invented by Hoe Sung Yang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kang Bok Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kwang Soo Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyu Won Han (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the invention, only light reflected by a portion in which a microneedle is disposed arrives on a photodetector, and light reflected by a portion in which the microneedle is not disposed does not arrive on the ph...