ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,467, issued on July 21, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Analyte sensor and method for manufacturing an analyte sensor" was invented by Kirill Sliozberg (Mannheim, Germany) and Alexander Steck (Hirschberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an analyte sensor comprising a substrate, at least one working electrode, at least one second electrode and a membrane, wherein the membrane is located on top of the second electrode, and the second electrode has at least one first silver layer and at least one second silver layer which partially overlap with one another and have the same comp...