Patent ID: 8579816

Claim:
A method for calibrating a continuous glucose sensor, comprising: receiving sensor data from a continuous glucose sensor, wherein the sensor data is indicative of a glucose concentration in a host, wherein a predictive relationship exists between in vitro sensitivity and in vivo sensitivity represented by m in vivo ≈f(m in vitro ), wherein m in vivo is the in vivo sensitivity after inserting the continuous glucose sensor in the host, m in vitro is the in vitro sensitivity prior to inserting the continuous glucose sensor in the host, and f is the predictive relationship between m in vitro and m in vivo ; receiving a priori sensitivity information associated with the continuous glucose sensor; and calibrating, using a processor module, the continuous glucose sensor based on the a priori sensitivity information, wherein the calibrating is performed without reliance on reference glucose values obtained from an in vitro self-monitoring blood glucose test after insertion of the glucose sensor in vivo.