US Patent Issued to Medtronic MiniMed on Oct. 27 for "Orthogonally redundant sensor systems and methods" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,138, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Calif.).

"Orthogonally redundant sensor systems and methods" was invented by Rajiv V. Shah (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Jesper Svenning Kristensen (Virum, Denmark), Katherine T. Wolfe (Dunwoody, Ga.), Soren Aasmul (Holte, Denmark) and Anubhuti Bansal (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous glucose monitoring system may include a hand-held monitor, a transmitter, an insulin pump, and an orthogonally redundant glucose sensor, which may comprise an optical glucose sensor and a non-optical glucose sensor. The former may be a fiber optical...