US Patent Issued to ICU Medical on Sept. 8 for "Medical device system performance index" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,683, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Medical device system performance index" was invented by Christopher Egan Kohlbrecher (Poway, Calif.), Jonathan Leigh Walton (Escondido, Calif.), Daniel Chien-Yu Hsu (San Diego) and Michael Paul Myers (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed network system and method includes a processing unit configured to manage safety data for a plurality of medical devices, a database software component in communication with the processing unit, and a monitoring software component in communication with the processing unit. The monitoring software comp...