ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,220, issued on July 28, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Medical device adaptive control for hostile environment" was invented by Jay Jyotindra Dave (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Igor Nesterenko (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to monitor, using one or more sensors, an environmental condition of a physical environment proximate to a medical device, and to determine when a value representative of the environmental condition exceeds a threshold for safe operation of the medical device with regard to care of a patient. Responsive to the value exceeding the threshold, an operation mode of...