ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,668, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Whippany, N.J.).

"System, method, and computer program product for protocol conversion" was invented by Corey Kemper (Pittsburgh) and John Volkar (Valencia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product for protocol conversion may obtain a fixed protocol including the following fixed protocol parameters: a flow rate of at least one fluid to be delivered to a patient in at least one phase of an injection and a volume of the at least one fluid to be delivered to the patient in the at least one phase of the injection; provide a series of pr...