ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,569, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Automated device maintenance support tool" was invented by Evan Chen (San Diego), Igor Nesterenko (San Diego), Tiffany Hamrick (Carlsbad, Calif.), Michael Workman (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brian Sullivan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device is configured to detect, based on a reading from the sensor, a state of a first component of the plurality of electronic components, identify a maintenance requirement of the medical device based on the detected state of the first component, restrict a first function of the medical device based on the id...