ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,772, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERISTY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION (Charlottesville, Va.).

"LQG artificial pancreas control system and related method" was invented by Stephen D. Patek (Charlottesville, Va.) and Marc D. Breton (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a methods and systems for determining an insulin dosing recommendation. The invention employs Linear Quadratic methodology to determine the insulin dosing recommendation based on a patient's present physiological state, which is estimated by an adaptive filter methodology employing a dynamic model, which utilizes real-t...