US Patent Issued to ICU Medical on Feb. 10 for "Medical device disposables information systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,655, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Medical device disposables information systems and methods" was invented by Grant A. Adams (Anoka, Minn.), Alison L. Bloomquist (Gem Lake, Minn.), Ryan D. Heilman (Columbia Heights, Minn.), Michael D. Welsch (Stillwater, Minn.) and Larry R. Zalesky (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing use of a disposable with an infusion pump is provided. The method can include adding validity information about a particular set of disposables to a list of disposables. Subsequent to adding the validity information, the method can include...