ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,397, issued on May 19, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for optimizing drug management" was invented by Dennis Anthony Tribble (Ormond Beach, Fla.), Quyen Ly (San Diego), Richard Parr (San Diego), Maria Consolacion Jaskela (San Rafael, Calif.), Gautam Sampath (San Diego) and Alan Greubel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optimizing drug management are disclosed. A disclosed system implements a method that includes receiving, from a first client system, a new drug code and drug information associated with new drug code, determining, by the computing system based on th...