ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,493, issued on March 3, was assigned to TANDEM DIABETES CARE INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for delayed meal boluses in automated insulin delivery" was invented by Virginia S. Lu (San Diego), Nicholas Sherer (Escondido, Calif.), Thomas R Ulrich (Oceanside, Calif.), Katherine Vyvy Tran (San Diego), Jose Ricardo Rueda (La Jolla, Calif.), Pat Mulvihill (San Diego), Peter Zhao (San Diego), Micah Stephens (San Diego), Ryan Cardenas (San Diego), Paul Harris (San Diego), Geoffrey A. Kruse (San Diego), Michael Michaud (San Diego) and Marissa Igartua (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatuses and method...