ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,060, issued on June 23, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Patient-specific medication management system" was invented by Vikas Gupta (Naperville, Ill.), Stephen J. Bollish (San Diego), Gail Berglund (Carmel, Ind.), Timothy W. Vanderveen (Poway, Calif.), Alan Davison (San Diego), Donald Halbert (San Diego) and Jesse J. Guerra (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for use with a medical device for controlling an infusion device are provided. In one aspect, a system includes an infusion device that is configurable with operating limit parameters for providing medication to a patient, and a limiting system. Th...