US Patent Issued to Medtronic MiniMed on July 15 for "Removable wearable device and related attachment methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,749, issued on July 15, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Removable wearable device and related attachment methods" was invented by Ellis Garai (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Ravi R. Deverkadra (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Jacob E. Pananen (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Removable devices wearable on a user's skin and methods for using such devices are provided. An exemplary removable device includes a skin adhesive configured to adhere to the skin, a durable component, and an interface component interconnecting the durable component and the skin adhesive. The device separates at the interface...