ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,148, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for compensating for agent elution" was invented by Ellis Garai (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Sarkis D. Aroyan (Northridge, Calif.), Anuj M. Patel (Porter Ranch, Calif.) and Ashwin K. Rao (West Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compensating for a life-lengthening agent for a glucose sensor includes accessing first and second electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) values of at least one parameter based on first and second EIS procedures performed on EIS signals from a working electrode of the glucose sens...