US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on April 14 for "Real time detection and monitoring of fluid volume and flow rate" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,720, issued on April 14, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Real time detection and monitoring of fluid volume and flow rate" was invented by Daniel M. Abal (San Diego), Brendan John Burgess (Poway, Calif.), Ramkumar Subramanian (San Diego), Reza Paiam (San Diego), Ronald Hidalgo (Killaloe, Ireland), Hermogenes Escala (Limerick City, Ireland) and James Hennessy (Annacotty, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a fault condition in an infusion process, the method includes receiving a programmed flow rate pertaining to a fluid infusion provided by an infusion device; determining, a first weight of...