ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,009, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Patient care system with conditional alarm forwarding" was invented by William Kenneth Day (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Steve Joseph Lindo (Chicago), Paul John Foryt (Woodstock, Ill.), Justin Joseph Schmidt (Grayslake, Ill.), Robert Cousineau (Boston), Michael Kremliovsky (Poway, Calif.), Sumant Ramachandra (Northbrook, Ill.), Anatoly S. Belkin (Glenview, Ill.) and Gary Mills (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient care system is disclosed that includes a medical device such as an infusion pump. The medical device generates a data mess...