ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,666, issued on June 30, was assigned to Tandem Diabetes Care Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method of modifying user profile in automated insulin delivery" was invented by Thomas R. Ulrich (Oceanside, Calif.) and Shaun Buchanan (Hampstead, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automated insulin delivery that provide for adaptive closed loop control that can modify the stored basal profile used by the closed loop algorithm to better reflect the user's actual needs. Actual delivery rates calculated by the closed loop algorithm can be compared to the user's stored profile. If the differences bet...