ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,212, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).
"Monitoring upstream flow characteristics for a pump" was invented by Nicholas Addiego (San Diego), Shannon Bailey (San Diego), Robert Dwaine Butterfield (San Diego) and Denton Davis (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring upstream flow characteristics for a pump is provided. The system may receive one or more outputs from a fluid level sensor coupled with a pump. The system may detect based on at least the one or more outputs, an abnormal upstream flow condition in the pump, such as a full upstream occlusion in the tube, a partial upstre...