US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on March 31 for "System and method for generating battery alarms in infusion devices" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,203, issued on March 31, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"System and method for generating battery alarms in infusion devices" was invented by Steven Ward Fischer (Gurnee, Ill.), Matthew Stephen Vogel (Spring Grove, Ill.) and Ye Chen (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for detecting remaining battery voltage or capacity in an infusion device and generating alarms based on the detection. A battery lifetime extension method includes providing an infusion device that derives its power from a rechargeable batter...