ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,918, issued on July 21, was assigned to GLYTEC LLC (Boston).

"Advising diabetes medications" was invented by Robert C. Booth (Greer, S.C.), Andrew Rhinehart (Greenville, S.C.) and Harry Hebblewhite (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining prescribing drug information and published guidelines for each of a plurality of ADMs available for managing glucose levels, and receiving patient information associated with a patient. The method also includes ordering total demerit values from lowest to highest, selecting a predetermined number of recommended ADMs associated with the lowest total demerit values, and dete...