US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for enforcing cleaning of a medical device" (California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,469, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for enforcing cleaning of a medical device" was invented by Igor Nesterenko (San Diego), Evan Chen (San Diego), Lisa Diggett (Olathe, Kan.) and Robert Regedanz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for enforcing a cleaning of a medical device are disclosed. A method includes receiving an indication that a medical device has been exposed to a contaminate, providing, responsive to receiving the indication, an instruction to disable the medical device, receiving, after transmitting the instruction, cleaning information ind...