Patents Assigned to CareFusion
  • Publication number: 20230367454
    Abstract: A medication delivery module is mounted to a patient care device, and a first graphic representative of the first medication delivery module is displayed on a display screen of the device, wherein the first graphic includes an information display area for display of infusion information associated with the first medication delivery module, and a status indicator for display of status information associated with the medication delivery module. Responsive to the indication, the status indicator is dynamically orienting such that the status indicator is displayed on a side of the first graphic nearest the coupling of the first medication delivery module. Infusion information from the first medication delivery module is displayed within the display area of the first graphic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: John LANGAN, Tressa DANIELS, Craig MITCHELL, Wendy SMYTH, Kelly DAOUST, Laura COLLINS, Patricia WEST, Claire KNIGHT
  • Patent number: 11816634
    Abstract: A mobile smart container system comprises a housing, an access component configured to secure access to a compartment within the housing when in a closed position, a communication interface configured to wirelessly receive a request to access the compartment, a perceivable output device, an electromechanical latch configured to engage with the access component to releasably lock the access component in the closed position, and a processor. The processor receives and authenticates the request to access the compartment and, in response to receiving and authenticating the request, activates the electromechanical latch to unlock the access component to make the compartment accessible, and outputs, upon actuation of the electromechanical latch, an alert via the perceivable output device to identify the smart container system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael K. Rahilly, Brendan John Burgess, Ramkumar Subramanian, Mustafa Yusufi, Monica Wyly
  • Patent number: 11815209
    Abstract: Spigot tube couplers for fluid flow sets and devices are provided. The spigot tube coupler includes a stop surface and a spigot extending from the stop surface and configured to be inserted into a tube. The spigot includes an insertion end, a fluid port, an outer surface, a collar and a plurality of grooves disposed around the outer surface. The plurality of grooves are configured to receive a bonding agent to provide a plurality of bonding areas between the spigot and the tube. Methods for assembling a spigot tube coupler and a tube are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Raymond P. Feith, Randy Kipp, Soon Y. Park, Siddarth K. Shevgoor
  • Patent number: 11801117
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enforcing a cleaning of a medical device are disclosed. A method includes receiving an indication that a medical device has been exposed to a contaminate, providing, responsive to receiving the indication, an instruction to disable the medical device, receiving, after transmitting the instruction, cleaning information indicating that a cleaning of the medical device was attempted, identifying a predetermined cleaning procedure corresponding to the medical device and the contaminate, determining, based on the cleaning information, that the medical device was cleaned according to the predetermined cleaning procedure corresponding to the medical device and the contaminate, and enabling the medical device responsive to determining that the medical device was cleaned according to the predetermined cleaning procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Igor Nesterenko, Evan Chen, Lisa Diggett, Robert Regedanz
  • Patent number: 11804295
    Abstract: A method may include identifying a shift associated with a clinician by applying a machine learning model trained to identify, based on a series of transaction records associated with the clinician, one or more shifts associated with the clinician. The clinician may be identified as likely to engage in a hazardous behavior based at least on the shift associated with the clinician. In response to determining that the clinician as likely to engage in the hazardous behavior, activating a protective workflow. The protective workflow may be configured to prevent the clinician from engaging in the hazardous behavior as well as to collect evidence associated with the hazardous behavior. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhikesh Nag, Cynthia Yamaga
  • Patent number: 11793935
    Abstract: A flow control device includes an upper housing, a lower housing, a chamber interposed between and defined by the upper and lower housings, and a valve member. The upper housing includes a primary inlet having an internal surface defining a cavity and a secondary inlet. The lower housing defines an outlet of the flow control device. The chamber fluidly connects the primary and secondary inlets with the outlet. A valve member is reciprocally disposed at least partially in the cavity and partially in the chamber to (i) selectively permit fluid flow in the primary inlet in a first direction when a fluid level in the chamber is below a predetermined level, and (ii) prevent fluid backflow in a second direction opposite to the first direction when the fluid level in the chamber is above the predetermined level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: Amarsinh Deeliprao Jadhav
  • Patent number: 11786679
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for weaning patients from ventilation, the method including the steps of receiving infusion and ventilation information, and determining whether to initiate termination of the ventilation. The method further including determining whether a timing of an extubation was performed according to the rules and protocols, and providing a notification to a client device regarding the timing of the extubation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Steinhauer, Terry Lee Blansfield, Leonard Mulkowsky, Andres Jesus Calderon, III
  • Patent number: 11786621
    Abstract: A sterilization container for sterilizing medical instruments that includes a body defining an interior volume and a lid connected to the body and configured to seal the interior volume between the lid and the body. The lid includes an exterior filter structure including a first plurality of ridges and a first plurality of troughs formed between the first ridges. The container includes a filter assembly connected to the lid and including an interior filter structure including a second plurality of ridges and a second plurality of troughs formed between the second ridges. The first plurality of ridges of the exterior filter structure are interposed between the second plurality of ridges of the interior filter structure. The exterior and interior filter structures are configured to form longitudinal channels positioned between the lid and filter assembly to define a rectangular tortuous filter path that inhibits ingress and egress from the interior volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 2200, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Cartwright, Brandon Toth, Benjamin Hopwood, Bradley Thomas Williams, Andrew VanDeWeghe, Atif Yardimci
  • Patent number: 11786717
    Abstract: A self-flushing connector includes a housing having a cavity, a first inlet port, a second inlet port, and an outlet port. A collapsible valve is disposed within the cavity. A first flow path extends from the first inlet port to the outlet port. The first inlet port and the second inlet port are fluidly connected through a gap defined between the body of the collapsible valve and an inner wall of the housing defining the cavity. A second flow path extends from the second inlet port to the first flow path. When the collapsible valve is in a closed state, the collapsible valve fluidly disconnects the second flow path from the first flow path while allowing fluid to flow through the first flow path. When the collapsible valve is in an open state, the second flow path is fluidly connected to the first flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond P. Feith, Jake Randolph Smith
  • Patent number: 11789420
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for managing secure refrigerated bin systems. A system receives a request to access a respective compartment of a plurality of compartments in a dispensing device. Responsive to receiving the access request-and identifying one or more medications in the respective compartment, a safe temperature range specific to the identified one or more medications is determined, and a temperature of the respective compartment is determined using a respective temperature sensor of the respective compartment. The system determines whether the determined temperature of the respective compartment is within the safe temperature range of the identified one or more medications causes an alert to be displayed when the determined temperature of the respective compartment is outside of the safe temperature range of the identified one or more medications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Honey Garg, Magnus Felke, William Blackledge
  • Patent number: 11786336
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for determining the location of hospital assets. The system includes one or more communication devices each associated with a respective asset identification and a computing device configured to communicate with the communication devices via a network. The computing device receives, from a respective communication device, data comprising the respective asset identification of the respective communication device an identifier associated with a patient or a patient care device, obtains, from a database based on the identifier, additional information pertaining to the patient or the patient care device, and determines a location of the respective communication device based on the data received from the respective communication device and the obtained additional information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventor: Serge Beaudry
  • Patent number: 11785047
    Abstract: One or more medical devices are configured to connect to a predetermined temporary provisioning network of a healthcare organization, the temporary provisioning network being different than a healthcare network of the healthcare organization. After the devices are received by the healthcare organization, and powered up for the first time, device identifiers corresponding to the medical devices are received at a server remote from the healthcare organization, from the temporary provisioning network, together with an indication that the medical devices are requesting access to a management server within a healthcare network of the healthcare organization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Aron Weiler, Jeff Gaetano, Brian Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11779750
    Abstract: A needleless connector includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis, a body portion, and a base portion. The body portion includes an inner surface forming an internal cavity, and a first port forming a first fluid passage to the housing cavity. The base portion includes a top end section and a bottom end section. The top end section has a protrusion, and the bottom end portion has a second port forming a second fluid passage to the housing cavity. The needleless connector further includes a valve having a wall with an inner surface forming a valve cavity. The valve is coupled with the housing such that the protrusion is positioned in the valve cavity, and a proximal end of the protrusion is spaced apart from a proximal end of the valve cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Archana Rao, Ali Saleh, Siddarth K. Shevgoor, George Mansour
  • Patent number: 11783937
    Abstract: A method and system identifies interactions of a user with one or more medical devices, determines, based on the one or more interactions and a predetermined set of rules, a compliance score associated with the first user, in response to the compliance score not satisfying a threshold compliance score, and reducing an access level of the user to at least one of the one or more medical devices and generates a training program associated with the at least one medical device and the one or more interactions, and automatically, without user involvement, sends a training package associated with the training program to the user and notifies the user to complete the training program using the training package. The system and method also generates a new shift schedule for clinicians responsive to a first shift schedule not satisfying criteria and the clinicians not satisfying respective performance scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Igor Nesterenko, Lisa Diggett, Evan Chen, Greg T. Hulan, Jeff Gaetano, Karthi Rajendran, Robert Regedanz
  • Patent number: 11779521
    Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes controllable fluid pathways. One or more rotary piston pump/valves may be used to move fluid and/or gasses through the various fluid pathways of the cartridge. For example, the cartridge may include a dedicated rotary piston pump/valve for each process that moves fluid and/or gas through the cartridge. When turning, the rotary piston pump/valve acts as a pump to move the fluid or gas, and when the rotary piston pump/valve stops turning, it effectively acts as a shutoff valve, preventing any fluid flow. Magnetic couplers for the cartridge may be provided on a pump head of the compounder system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, Dereck S. Ferdaws, Tomas Frausto
  • Patent number: 11783934
    Abstract: A method may include presenting, on a display of an infusion device, a first patient parameter and a second patient parameter. The infusion device may receive a first entry, which may include a first value of the first patient parameter. The infusion device may determine a default value of the second patient parameter based on the entered first value of the first patient parameter. The infusion device may present the determined default value of the second patient parameter. The infusion device may receive a second entry, which includes a second value of the second patient parameter. The second value may be an adjustment of the default value of the second patient parameter that is an accurate representation of the second patient parameter. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including apparatuses and computer program products, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Carefusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: Jan Henning Austnes
  • Patent number: 11772837
    Abstract: A storage and dosing station for storage and dispensing dosed quantities of solid drug portions includes a controller, an information reading device coupled to the controller, a dispensing mechanism, a detachable storage container configured to store solid drug portions, an outlet configured to output the solid drug portions and an information memory. The information memory may store data that comprises one of a glossiness level of a surface of the solid drug portions and a reflectivity level of the surface of the solid drug portions that is used by the controller to control dispensing of the solid drug portions; that is used by the controller to adjust a sensor; and that comprises parameters of movement of the dispensing mechanism of one or more of maximum torque, rotation angles, and rotation positions of the movement of the dispensing mechanism used by the controller to control dispensing of the solid drug portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION SWITZERLAND 317 SÀRL
    Inventor: Arie Van Wijngaarden
  • Patent number: 11771825
    Abstract: A system including a tube and a force sensor coupled to a wall of the tube via a restraining element and configured to obtain a value of a tubing force when the tube is deformed by the restraining element. The system includes a processor to determine parameters for fitting a curve including the value of the tubing force, to determine a fluid pressure value for a fluid in the tube based on the parameters for fitting the curve, and to activate an alarm responsive to the fluid pressure value and to the parameters for fitting the curve when an occlusion condition is identified in the tube. The parameters for fitting the curve comprise at least one time-decaying parameter(s) associated to the tubing force. A method for using the system and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Gregory Carothers, Richard Stor Wu, Robert Dwaine Butterfield, Robert Steven Vasko
  • Patent number: 11772878
    Abstract: A storage container for a storage and dispensing station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a housing enclosing a receiving space, a circular-cylindrical section and a bottom area having a discharge opening. A singling device situated in the circular-cylindrical portion of the housing includes at least one duct and a restrainer completely situated within the housing enclosing the receiving space. The restrainer includes a fastening portion and a restraining portion. The restraining portion is kept above the discharge opening and the fastening portion works together with at least one fastening socket within the housing to fix the restrainer in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH
    Inventor: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger
  • Patent number: D1004412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignees: DEKA Products Limited Partnership, CAREFUSION 303, INC.
    Inventors: Larry B. Gray, Soon Yong Park, Jake Randolph Smith