US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 25 for "Levodopa sensor for tight tuning of dosage" (Arizona, Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,338, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Levodopa sensor for tight tuning of dosage" was invented by David Probst (Chandler, Ariz.), Randal Schulhauser (Phoenix), Patrick W. Kinzie (Glendale, Ariz.), Jadin C. Jackson (Roseville, Minn.) and Daniel Hahn (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enzymatic sensor configured to determine the concentration of levodopa present in a sample according to a current or a resonant frequency produced in response to levodopa interactions with L-amino acid decarboxylase present in the sensor. A processor associated with the sensor determines levodopa concentrati...