US Patent Issued to INSULET on Jan. 13 for "Method for modification of insulin delivery during pregnancy in automatic insulin delivery systems" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,486, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Method for modification of insulin delivery during pregnancy in automatic insulin delivery systems" was invented by Rangarajan Narayanaswami (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments are directed to methods for dynamically adjusting the total daily insulin requirements of a user during pregnancy, based on the gestational week. An initial estimate of the adjusted total daily insulin requirement may be calculated as a multiple of the pre-pregnancy total daily insulin requirement, based on an average scale factor from a population of pre...