ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,835, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Minimally invasive continuous analyte monitoring for closed-loop treatment applications" was invented by Joseph Wang (San Diego) and Irene Litvan (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for minimally-invasive and continuous analyte monitoring for closed-loop applications, such as drug delivery. In some aspects, a multi-modal microneedle sensing platform for continuous minimally-invasive orthogonal electrochemical monitoring of levodopa (L-Dopa) is disclosed, which uses parallel si...