ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,664, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Adaptive control of medical devices based on clinician interactions" was invented by Igor Nesterenko (San Diego), Lisa Diggett (Olathe, Kan.), Evan Chen (San Diego), Greg T. Hulan (Poway, Calif.), Jeff Gaetano (Wittmann, Ariz.), Karthi Rajendran (San Diego) and Robert Regedanz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system identifies interactions of a user with one or more medical devices, determines, based on the one or more interactions and a predetermined set of rules, a compliance score associated with the first user, in response to the compl...