ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,305, issued on March 31, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Drug library manager with customized worksheets" was invented by Ben Xavier (San Diego), Dennis Krabbe (San Diego), Timothy Kil (San Diego), Jody Polk (San Diego), Aaron Fields-Cypress (San Marcos, Calif.) and Julius Tobias (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug library management system facilitates centralized management of the drug libraries that are used by various infusion pumps, including in clinical environments that have different types and/or versions of infusion pumps. Medications, administration rules, critical care area rules, and...