ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,997, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).
"Medical device update system" was invented by John Arrizza (Oceanside, Calif.), James R. Shults (Ramona, Calif.), Thomas J. Vaccaro (Encinitas, Calif.) and Patrick A. Ward (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing updates to medical devices is disclosed. In one example, the medical devices are configured to pull update files in response to the reception of an update message from a server. Once the update files are downloaded by a medical device, the update files can be installed. While the medical device pulls the update ...