ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,774, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).

"Remote scanning and validating of clinical order device configurations" was invented by Lisa Diggett (Overland Park, Kan.), Michael K. Workman (Carlsbad, Calif.), Claire Ellen Knight (Arlington, Texas) and Joshua Jay Harman (Seguin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for scanning and validating clinical order device configurations is disclosed. A test instance of an infusion device is created based on a request, and an automated programming command is transmitted to the test instance. The automated programming command includes validation information ...