US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for occlusion detection in infusion pumps" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,394, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for occlusion detection in infusion pumps" was invented by Steven Ward Fischer (Gurnee, Ill.) and Ye Chen (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting an occlusion in an infusion device are disclosed. One method includes generating, during an infusion session at predetermined intervals, a feature vector including an initial measurement of a physical force caused by fluid motion through an infusion device at the start of an infusion session, a...