US Patent Issued to CareFusion 303 on Oct. 7 for "Rare instance analytics for diversion detection" (California, Texas, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,862, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).

"Rare instance analytics for diversion detection" was invented by Cynthia Yamaga (Oceanside, Calif.), Hien-Hoa Vu (Pearland, Texas), Abhikesh Nag (San Diego), Satya Varaprasad Allumallu (San Diego) and Dennis Tribble (Ormond Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting diversion may include identifying an activity pattern associated with a clinician as being an infrequent activity pattern that occurs below a threshold frequency. Whether the infrequent activity pattern corresponds to an anomalous behavior may be determined based at least on one...