US Patent Issued to Roche Diabetes Care on Dec. 16 for "Sensor elements for detecting an analyte in a body fluid sample as well as methods of making the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,000, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Sensor elements for detecting an analyte in a body fluid sample as well as methods of making the same" was invented by Sabine Achmann (Mannheim, Germany), Holger Kotzan (Ladenburg, Germany), Ulrich Mueller (Dortmund, Germany), Monika Strasser (Mannheim, Germany) and Herbert Wieder (Lampertheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor elements are provided for determining at least one analyte concentration in a body fluid. The sensor elements are at least partially implantable into a body tissue and have a substrate and at least two electrodes. One...