ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,322, issued on April 14, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Method for an analyte sensor cover-membrane preparation" was invented by Peng Zou (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Alexander Steck (Hirschberg, Germany), Gernot Hochmuth (Mannheim, Germany), Reinhold Mischler (Ludwigshafen, Germany), Kirill Sliozberg (Mannheim, Germany) and Christian Hoertz (Worms, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a process for forming a membrane on an analyte sensor and further relates to an analyte sensor obtainable by this process. This disclosure also relates to a process for forming a sensing lay...