US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on June 30 for "Systems and methods for controlling an infusion pump" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,664, issued on June 30, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for controlling an infusion pump" was invented by Timothy W. Vanderveen (Poway, Calif.) and Robert Dwaine Butterfield (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining the position of a fluid within a fluid source and infusion line coupled to an infusion flow control device are described herein. An exemplary system and method includes sampling fluid pressure upstream of an infusion pump, and calculating fluid pressure slope profiles. By sampling fluid pressure upstream of an infusion pump at discrete intervals...