ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,849, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Connection state determination method and connection state determination system" was invented by Kazuya Minai (Kai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a connection state determination method and a connection state determination system that enable provision of work assistance to a medical worker to reduce workloads and human mistakes. The connection state determination method is a connection state determination method for determining a connection state between a plurality of medical devices each including a connection portion having a unique identifier, the c...