ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,509, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sage Products LLC (Cary, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for medical device task generation and management" was invented by Catherine Boulos (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Ronald Cagle (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Heather Mercier (Rockford, Ill.) and Theresa Sebastian (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating and managing one or more tasks associated with a medical device includes receiving, by a medical device task generation and management system, patient data associated with a patient, receiving, by the system, device data associated with the medical device, and generating, by the system, ...