ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,315, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).
"Occlusion detection for infusion pumps" was invented by Kevin Gregory Carothers (San Diego), Richard Stor Wu (San Diego), Robert Dwaine Butterfield (Poway, Calif.) and Robert Steven Vasko (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion pump for detection of a fluid condition in a flexible tubing is provided. The infusion pump includes a sensor positioned to obtain a value of a tubing force when the tube is received by the infusion pump, a memory storing instructions and a processor. The processor is configured to execute the instructions to generate a force...