ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,373, issued on May 13, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Patient care unit order confirmation" was invented by Evan Chen (San Diego), Lisa Diggett (Olathe, Kan.), Robert M. Regedanz (San Diego) and Michael K. Workman (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed systems and methods provide patient care unit (PCU) order confirmation. A method may include authorizing a user to operate a medication delivery device. The method may also include retrieving, in response to the authorizing, a user history associated with the user, wherein the user history includes one or more dispensing records for pending medicatio...