Patents by Inventor Giovanni Sparacino

Giovanni Sparacino has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11925484
    Abstract: A device for generating alerts for Hypo and Hyperglycemia Prevention from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) determines a dynamic risk based on both information of glucose level and a trend obtainable from a CGM signals. The device includes a display whose color depends on the DR (for example, red for high DR, green for low risk). When DR exceeds a certain threshold, alerts are generated to suggest the patient to pay attention to the current glucose reading and to its trend, both of which are shown on the display in numbers and symbols (e.g. an arrow with different slope or color).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli, Stefania Guerra, Andrea Facchinetti, Michele Schiavon
  • Publication number: 20230343457
    Abstract: A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes (T1D) patient decision-making can be used to simulate, in silico, realistic glucose/insulin dynamics, for several days, in a variety of subjects who take therapeutic actions (e.g. insulin dosing) driven by either self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The decision-making (DM) model can simulate real-life situations and everyday patient behaviors. Accurate submodels of SMBG and CGM measurement errors are incorporated in the comprehensive DM model. The DM model accounts for common errors the patients are used to doing in their diabetes management, such as miscalculations of meal carbohydrate content, early/delayed insulin administrations and missed insulin boluses. The DM model can be used to assess in silico if/when CGM can safely substitute SMBG in T1D management, to develop and test guidelines for CGM driven insulin dosing, to optimize and individualize off-line insulin therapies and to develop and test decision support systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli
  • Patent number: 11749408
    Abstract: A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes (T1D) patient decision-making can be used to simulate, in silico, realistic glucose/insulin dynamics, for several days, in a variety of subjects who take therapeutic actions (e.g. insulin dosing) driven by either self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The decision-making (DM) model can simulate real-life situations and everyday patient behaviors. Accurate submodels of SMBG and CGM measurement errors are incorporated in the comprehensive DM model. The DM model accounts for common errors the patients are used to doing in their diabetes management, such as miscalculations of meal carbohydrate content, early/delayed insulin administrations and missed insulin boluses. The DM model can be used to assess in silico if/when CGM can safely substitute SMBG in T1D management, to develop and test guidelines for CGM driven insulin dosing, to optimize and individualize off-line insulin therapies and to develop and test decision support systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DEXCOM, INC.
    Inventors: Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli
  • Publication number: 20230210474
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Hari HAMPAPURAM, Anna Leigh DAVIS, Naresh C. BHAVARAJU, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Claudio COBELLI, Giovanni SPARACINO, Andrea FACCHINETTI, Chiara ZECCHIN
  • Publication number: 20230210412
    Abstract: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices provide glucose concentration measurements in the subcutaneous tissue with limited accuracy and precision. Therefore, CGM readings cannot be incorporated in a straightforward manner in outcome metrics of clinical trials e.g. aimed to assess new glycaemic-regulation therapies. To define those outcome metrics, frequent Blood Glucose (BG) reference measurements are still needed, with consequent relevant difficulties in outpatient settings. Here we propose a “retrofitting” algorithm that produces a quasi continuous time BG profile by simultaneously exploiting the high accuracy of available BG references (possibly very sparsely collected) and the high temporal resolution of CGM data (usually noisy and affected by significant bias).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Claudio COBELLI, Simone DEL FAVERO, Andrea FACCHINETTI, Giovanni SPARACINO
  • Patent number: 11690577
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Hampapuram, Anna Leigh Davis, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Claudio Cobelli, Giovanni Sparacino, Andrea Facchinetti, Chiara Zecchin
  • Publication number: 20230140055
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for providing decision support around glucose management for patients with diabetes. Time-varying inputs including blood glucose, meal intake information, and amount of infused insulin are processed using a machine learning model to obtain predicted glucose levels for a plurality of prediction horizons and uncertainties for the predictions. A confidence interval is generated for each prediction and the confidence intervals are compared to hypo- and hyperglycemic thresholds. If a confidence interval is entirely below or entirely above the hypo- and hyperglycemic thresholds, respectively, then a decision support output is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Simone FACCIOLI, Andrea FACCHINETTI, Simone DEL FAVERO, Francisco PRENDIN, Giovanni SPARACINO
  • Patent number: 11633156
    Abstract: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) devices provide glucose concentration measurements in the subcutaneous tissue with limited accuracy and precision. Therefore, CGM readings cannot be incorporated in a straightforward manner in outcome metrics of clinical trials e.g. aimed to assess new glycaemic-regulation therapies. To define those outcome metrics, frequent Blood Glucose (BG) reference measurements are still needed, with consequent relevant difficulties in outpatient settings. Here we propose a “retrofitting” algorithm that produces a quasi continuous time BG profile by simultaneously exploiting the high accuracy of available BG references (possibly very sparsely collected) and the high temporal resolution of CGM data (usually noisy and affected by significant bias).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom Inc.
    Inventors: Claudio Cobelli, Simone Del Favero, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino
  • Publication number: 20220313173
    Abstract: A device for generating alerts for Hypo and Hyperglycemia Prevention from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) determines a dynamic risk based on both information of glucose level and a trend obtainable from a CGM signals. The device includes a display whose color depends on the DR (for example, red for high DR, green for low risk). When DR exceeds a certain threshold, alerts are generated to suggest the patient to pay attention to the current glucose reading and to its trend, both of which are shown on the display in numbers and symbols (e.g. an arrow with different slope or color).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Giovanni SPARACINO, Claudio COBELLI, Stefania GUERRA, Andrea FACCHINETTI, Michele SCHIAVON
  • Patent number: 11412992
    Abstract: A device for generating alerts for Hypo and Hyperglycemia Prevention from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) determines a dynamic risk based on both information of glucose level and a trend obtainable from a CGM signals. The device includes a display whose color depends on the DR (for example, red for high DR, green for low risk). When DR exceeds a certain threshold, alerts are generated to suggest the patient to pay attention to the current glucose reading and to its trend, both of which are shown on the display in numbers and symbols (e.g. an arrow with different slope or color).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli, Stefania Guerra, Andrea Facchinetti, Michele Schiavon
  • Publication number: 20220233152
    Abstract: A method of predicting future blood glucose concentrations of an individual patient includes: selecting an individualized nonlinear physiological model of glucose-insulin dynamics, the selected model having a plurality of model parameters whose values are to be determined; estimating values for each of the model parameters in the plurality of model parameters, a first subset of the model parameters having values estimated from a priori population data and a second subset of the model parameters having values personalized for the individual patient by applying a parameter estimation technique to a priori information and data for the individual patient to obtain a posteriori information; and; applying a nonlinear prediction technique to the selected model using the estimated values for each of the model parameters to obtain a predicted blood glucose concentration of the individual patient at a future time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Giacomo Cappon, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Simone Del Favero
  • Publication number: 20220202323
    Abstract: A method of predicting future blood glucose concentrations of an individual patient includes: identifying an individualized linear black box model of glucose-insulin by estimating a plurality of impulse response functions each accounting for an input-output relation of a plurality of individualized patient data sets, the impulse response functions being functions in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS); and applying a linear predicting technique to the selected model using the identified impulse response functions to obtain a predicted blood glucose concentration of the individual patient at a future time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Simone Del Favero, Andrea Facchinetti, Simone Faccioli, Gianluigi Pillonetto, Giovanni Sparacino
  • Publication number: 20220071519
    Abstract: Mitigation of the risk of prolonged hypoglycemia in T1D management requires patient to assume a small dose of fast-acting carbohydrates, called hypotreatment (HT), as soon as hypoglycemia is detected. This invention consists in a method that, on the basis of the datastream generated by a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) sensor, triggers the assumption of preventive HTs i.e., snacks that, being quickly absorbed into the circulation, avoid, or at least mitigate, a forthcoming hypoglycemic event. The method resorts to the “dynamic risk” (DR) non-linear function, which combines current glycemia with its rate-of-change provided by CGM, adapted to distinguish the severity of the about-to-happen hypoglycemia. The method has been tested in a simulated realistic scenario. Results show that the administration of an HT in advance, as triggered by the new method, brings to a strong reduction of the time that a patient would have spent in hypoglycemia assuming the HT at hypoglycemic threshold crossing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Giovanni SPARACINO, Nunzio CAMERLINGO, Martina VETTORETTI, Andrea FACCHINETTI, Simone DEL FAVERO, Giacomo CAPPON
  • Publication number: 20220044813
    Abstract: A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes (T1D) patient decision-making can be used to simulate, in silico, realistic glucose/insulin dynamics, for several days, in a variety of subjects who take therapeutic actions (e.g. insulin dosing) driven by either self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The decision-making (DM) model can simulate real-life situations and everyday patient behaviors. Accurate submodels of SMBG and CGM measurement errors are incorporated in the comprehensive DM model. The DM model accounts for common errors the patients are used to doing in their diabetes management, such as miscalculations of meal carbohydrate content, early/delayed insulin administrations and missed insulin boluses. The DM model can be used to assess in silico if/when CGM can safely substitute SMBG in T1D management, to develop and test guidelines for CGM driven insulin dosing, to optimize and individualize off-line insulin therapies and to develop and test decision support systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli
  • Patent number: 11183301
    Abstract: A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes (T1D) patient decision-making can be used to simulate, in silico, realistic glucose/insulin dynamics, for several days, in a variety of subjects who take therapeutic actions (e.g. insulin dosing) driven by either self-monitoring blood glucose (SMBG) or continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). The decision-making (DM) model can simulate real-life situations and everyday patient behaviors, Accurate submodels of SMBG and CGM measurement errors are incorporated in the comprehensive DM model. The DM model accounts for common errors the patients are used to doing in their diabetes management, such as miscalculations of meal carbohydrate content, early/delayed insulin administrations and missed insulin boluses. The DM model can be used to assess in silico if/when CGM can safely substitute SMBG in T1D management, to develop and test guidelines for CGM driven insulin dosing, to optimize and individualize off-line insulin therapies and to develop and test decision support systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Martina Vettoretti, Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli
  • Patent number: 11026640
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Hampapuram, Anna Leigh Davis, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Claudio Cobelli, Giovanni Sparacino, Andrea Facchinetti, Chiara Zecchin
  • Publication number: 20210145371
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Hari Hampapuram, Anna Leigh Davis, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Claudio Cobelli, Giovanni Sparacino, Andrea Facchinetti, Chiara Zecchin
  • Patent number: 11006903
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Hampapuram, Anna Leigh Davis, Naresh C. Bhavaraju, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Claudio Cobelli, Giovanni Sparacino, Andrea Facchinetti, Chiara Zecchin
  • Publication number: 20210113122
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for improving the accuracy of a continuous glucose monitoring sensor by estimating a CGM signal at a time t+PH using a value of CGM at time t, using a real-time short-time glucose prediction horizon to estimate the real time denoised CGM value with a noise estimation algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli, Boris Kovatchev
  • Patent number: 10881334
    Abstract: A method, system, and device for improving the accuracy of a continuous glucose monitoring sensor by estimating a CGM signal at a time t+PH using a value of CGM at time t, using a real-time short-time glucose prediction horizon to estimate the real time denoised CGM value with a noise estimation algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PATENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Andrea Facchinetti, Giovanni Sparacino, Claudio Cobelli, Boris Kovatchev