ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,221, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Infusion system and pump with configurable closed loop delivery rate catch-up" was invented by Steve Joseph Lindo (Chicago) and William Kenneth Day (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion system and pump with configurable closed loop delivery rate catch-up including an infusion system having a medication management unit and a medical device. The medication management unit has programming code to: provide a graphical user interface for modifying a drug library; receive a catch-up rate factor; update the drug library with the catch...