ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,306, issued on March 31, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Devices and methods for initialization of drug delivery devices using measured analyte sensor information" was invented by Ashutosh Zade (San Diego), Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.) and Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are processes and techniques implementable by a drug delivery system to maintain optimal drug delivery for a patient according to a treatment plan. The disclosed techniques enable a new drug delivery device that is exchanged for a previous drug delivery device to operate using analyte-based drug delivery control imm...