Patent ID: 11903698
Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 5:
6. An apparatus for use with a patient, with a blood glucose monitoring device, and with an infusion device, the apparatus comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
compute a profile of a blood glucose concentration of the patient based, at least in part, on a probability density function of a plurality of blood glucose concentration values collected at the blood glucose monitoring device;
determine a metric based, at least in part, on a convolution of a cost or loss function and the profile, wherein the metric is for balancing short-term and long-term risks associated with a therapy and is representative of a glycemic health of the patient, and wherein the loss or cost function substantially has the form:

Loss(GT)=log10(σ)2+[log10(μ)−log10(GT)]2, where:

GT is a target blood glucose concentration value;
μ is a computed mean of the plurality of blood glucose concentration values; and
σ is a measure of the statistical dispersion of the plurality of blood glucose concentration values; and

affect an insulin therapy applied to the patient by the infusion device, based, at least in part, on the metric.