US Patent Issued to MEDTRONIC MINIMED on Feb. 24 for "Automated detection of a physical behavior event and corresponding adjustment of a medication dispensing system" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,249, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MEDTRONIC MINIMED INC. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Automated detection of a physical behavior event and corresponding adjustment of a medication dispensing system" was invented by Katelijn Vleugels (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques include obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors configured to detect movement related to a user of the one or more sensors, and determining, based on the sensor data, of an occurrence of a gesture-based physical behavior event of the user. The techniques further cause adjustment of a medication dosage for delivery to the user ba...