US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on July 29 for "Infusion pump with accelerometer controlled surface temperature" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,302, issued on July 29, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Infusion pump with accelerometer controlled surface temperature" was invented by Jiri Slaby (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Slawomir Edward Wojtysiak (McHenry, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion pump includes a housing, a pumping mechanism, an accelerometer configured to detect at least one of pump motion and pump angular orientation, and a temperature control unit. The temperature control unit is configured to receive accelerometer data and determine a pump configuration based on the accelero...