Patents Assigned to CareFusion
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Patent number: 11708923Abstract: Tubing retention systems are described herein. A tubing retention system includes a spigot, a tubing, and a collar. The spigot includes a spigot body and a spigot extension extending from the spigot body, wherein the spigot extension comprises a flared portion opposite to the spigot body and the spigot body and the spigot extension cooperatively define a spigot lumen. The tubing includes an outer surface and a tubing lumen, wherein a coupling portion of the tubing is disposed around the spigot extension, permitting fluid communication between the tubing lumen and the spigot lumen. The collar is disposed radially around the outer surface of the tubing and axially between the flared portion and the spigot body, wherein the collar radially engages the coupling portion of the tubing disposed around the spigot extension to axially and radially retain the tubing with the spigot.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventor: Wantjinarjo Suwito
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Patent number: 11708924Abstract: Couplers are described herein. A coupler includes a coupler body, a plurality of first retaining fingers, and a plurality of second retaining fingers. The coupler body includes a first end and a second end, and defining a cavity, the cavity configured to receive a first connector and a second connector. The plurality of first retaining fingers are configured to engage against a collar of the first connector to prevent axial motion of the first connector relative to the coupler. The plurality of second retaining fingers are configured to engage against a shoulder of the second connector with a retention force, and release the second connector by radially expanding in response to a pullout force exerted on the second connector exceeding the retention force.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: George Mansour, Raymond Feith
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Patent number: 11709580Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: John Langan, Tressa Daniels, Craig Mitchell, Wendy Smyth, Kelly Daoust, Laura Collins, Patricia West, Claire Knight
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Patent number: 11701509Abstract: A needleless valve system includes a cannula comprising a cannula tip; a valve comprising a valve tip, wherein the valve is disposed around the cannula; and a housing comprising a housing tip, wherein the cannula tip, the valve tip, and the housing tip comprise a flat surface when the needleless valve system is in a sealed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan Yeh
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Publication number: 20230218871Abstract: A shunt for draining fluid including a first catheter, an electronic pump fluidly coupled to the first catheter, a manual pump fluidly coupled to the electronic pump, a second catheter fluidly coupled to the manual pump. During a drainage operation, the shunt arranged and configured such that a fluid is passively pressure-driven through the shunt, and the electronic pump is arranged to prevent blockages within the shunt by flowing a bolus of the fluid through the shunt. Additionally, the manual pump is arranged to prevent blockages within the shunt by flowing a bolus of the fluid through the shunt in the event that the electronic pump cannot produce a bolus of the fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: CareFusion 2200, Inc.Inventors: Gianluca Puliti, Hong Shen, Kelly Hurtis, Briana Flanagan
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Patent number: 11697517Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions. The systems can include a housing that encloses a receiving space having a bottom surface. A separation device may be provided and arranged on the bottom surface with at least one channel to receive at least one medicament portion. At least one channel may have an opening facing the receiving space and an opening facing the bottom surface. The opening facing the bottom surface may be associated with a contact area on the bottom surface, over which contact area the medicament portions may be guided upon a movement of separation device. At least one recess may be arranged in the bottom surface outside of the contact area to receive contamination particles present in the container.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Dietmar Gross
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Patent number: 11697215Abstract: A surgical hair clipper includes a clipper body and a blade assembly connected to the clipper body. The blade assembly includes a moveable blade configured to reciprocate to remove hair from a skin area and a blade housing that houses the moveable blade. The blade housing has a guide surface that faces the skin area during a hair removal process. A touch sensor is exposed at the guide surface for contact with the skin area during use. A processor receives a signal from the touch sensor when the touch sensor contacts the skin area. The processor uses logic saved in a memory to instruct a feedback device to provide an indication of skin contact between the touch sensor and the skin area.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 2200, Inc.Inventors: Isaias Tellez, Robert Radford, Sara Tillman, Camille A. Sendlak
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Patent number: 11699422Abstract: Methods and systems for actively and adaptively cancelling the noise and vibration generated by medical devices. A method includes receiving data from one or more sensors of a medical device. The method includes determining a signature signal for the medical device based at least on the data. The signature signal is a representation of one or more physical byproducts of the medical device, and one or more environmental conditions of a physical environment proximate to the medical device. The method incudes determining an inverted signal based on the signature signal, the inverted signal configured to mask the signature signal. The method includes generating a physical representation of the inverted signal by one or more electrical or electromechanical components of the medical device, and masking the signature signal with the inverted signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Jay Jyotindra Dave, Julio Cesar Gomes Pimentel, Matthew M. Miceli
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Patent number: 11684755Abstract: A holder for securing a venous access device to a patient may include a flexible substrate having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an outer perimetal surface. An adhesive layer may overlay the lower surface of the flexible substrate. The adhesive layer may have an adhesive for adhering to skin of the patient. The holder may further include a hydrophilic matrix integrated into at least a portion of the adhesive layer, at least one solvent reservoir disposed on the upper surface of the flexible substrate, and a connector secured to the outer perimetal surface. The connector may have a first end for connection to a needle assembly and a second end for connection to an IV fluid line.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Jason Andrew Wine, Chris Jesse Zollinger
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Patent number: 11681985Abstract: Systems and methods for providing automated inventory management of medicine and healthcare items stored within bins in care facilities are disclosed. A method includes providing an interactive storage device for attaching to a bin, and outputting, via an audiovisual element, a visual representation of a local inventory of the bin, receiving a user input, determining a change to the local inventory according to the user input, updating the local inventory in a non-volatile data store according to the change, synchronizing the local inventory with one or more nodes via a communication interface, and receiving, from the one or more nodes via the communication interface, periodic updates for a local cache comprising locations and inventories of one or more remote bins.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Michael K. Rahilly, Brendan John Burgess, Ramkumar Subramanian, Mustafa Yusufi, Monica Wyly
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Patent number: 11672908Abstract: IV filters are described herein. An IV filter includes a body, a filter media, and a bulb. The body defines a body volume. The filter media is disposed within the body volume. The filter media defines an inlet portion of the body volume and an outlet portion of the body volume. The filter media permits inlet flow from the inlet portion of the body volume to the outlet portion of the body volume and captures particulate from the inlet flow. The bulb defines a bulb volume in fluid communication with the outlet portion of the body volume. The bulb is deformable to compress the bulb volume and direct back flow from the outlet portion of the body volume through the filter media and into the inlet portion of the body volume, displacing particulate captured in the filter media into the inlet portion of the body volume.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Eugene Mason, Jason Andrew Wine, Raymond P. Feith
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Patent number: 11676441Abstract: The subject technology provides at least a system and method for accessing a medication based on near-field communication (NFC). An NFC connection is established between a medical device and NFC circuitry associated with a user separate from the medical device and, based on information obtained from the NFC connection, pairing information for a mobile device to connect to the medical device is determined. A short range wireless connection is automatically established between the medical device and the mobile device associated with the user based on the determined pairing information, and a request for access to a medication provided by the medical device is sent from the mobile device to the medical device via the short range wireless connection.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: Honey Garg, Magnus R. Felke, Robert Gaede
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Patent number: 11660768Abstract: Surgical clipper blade assemblies with hydrophobic coating layers and methods of use for hair removal from a skin area include using a surgical clipper blade assembly including a blade, a top surface, a bottom surface, a plurality of sidewalls disposed and extending between the top surface and the bottom surface, and an aperture configured to receive the blade, and a hydrophobic coating layer disposed on at least a portion of a top skin facing surface comprising the top surface and the blade. The surgical clipper blade assembly may include a plurality of ribs on the top surface, and the portion of the top skin facing surface may include the top surface, the blade, the plurality of ribs, or combinations thereof. During operation of the blade to remove hair from the skin area, the hydrophobic coating layer reduces friction forces and prevents risk of skin abrasions.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 2200, Inc.Inventors: Anas Jaber, Gianluca Puliti
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Patent number: 11662033Abstract: A check valve includes a housing that includes an inlet port, an outlet port, and a valve chamber. The inlet port extends from a ceiling of the valve chamber to an outer surface of the housing. The outlet port extends from a floor of the valve chamber to the outer surface of the housing. The check valve further includes a valve member supported within the chamber. The valve includes a valve head. When an upstream pressure is applied to the valve, the valve head is configured to deflect away from the ceiling of the valve chamber and unseal the inlet port. When a downstream pressure is applied to the valve, the valve head is configured to deflect away from the floor of the valve chamber and seal the inlet port such that the valve head conforms to a shape of the ceiling of the valve chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Eugene Mason, George Mansour
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Patent number: 11654272Abstract: A multi-tubing intravenous (IV) extension set may include an outlet tubing fluidly coupled to a primary multi-tubing connector at one end and fluidly coupled to a vascular device at an opposite end, and a primary inlet tubing having a proximal end with an adapter for connection to a syringe containing a priming or a medicinal fluid, and a distal end coupled to the primary multi-tubing connector. The IV extension set may further include at least one secondary inlet tubing with a proximal end having an adapter for receiving a medicinal fluid and a distal end selectively fluidly coupled to the primary multi-tubing connector. A slide clamp may be positioned on the outlet tubing to restrict flow between the proximal and distal ends of the outlet tubing and cause priming fluid flowing into the outlet tubing via the multi-tubing connector to reverse direction into the at least one secondary inlet tubing.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Jiagui Li, Rongjie Liang, George Michael Mansour
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Patent number: 11651846Abstract: The disclosed system identifies a preparation status of a first and second medication. Based on the delivery time and the completion time for the second medication, the system determines whether the first medication should be delivered prior to delivering the second medication and, when determining that the second medication should delivered prior to delivering the first medication, a notification to deliver the second medication before delivering the first medication is sent to a display device.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: Thomas William Utech, Maria Consolacion Jaskela, William Lee Webster
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Patent number: 11648182Abstract: Various aspects of the subject disclosure relate to a compounder system having a cartridge that includes fluid pathways controllable by valves of the cartridge. A pump component within the cartridge is actuable to move fluid through the controllable fluid pathways. The cartridge includes a needleless fluid port and a needleless vent port for fluid coupling to a vial via a vial puck. The vial puck includes corresponding needleless fluid and vent ports and a cannula. The cannula is extendible, by insertion of a protrusion on the cartridge into a shaft of the vial puck, into the vial to couple the vial to the needleless fluid and vent ports.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: Todd Oda, Tomas Frausto, Dereck S. Ferdaws
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Patent number: 11642466Abstract: Syringes are described herein. A syringe includes a syringe body, a first plunger, a biasing member, and a retention member. The syringe body defines a syringe cavity and a syringe port, wherein the syringe port is in fluid communication with the syringe cavity. The first plunger comprises a first plunger shaft extending from the first plunger, the first plunger disposed within the syringe cavity and defining a first chamber in the syringe cavity, wherein the first chamber is in fluid communication with the syringe port. The biasing member is coupled to the first plunger shaft, wherein the biasing member urges the first plunger to advance toward the syringe port. The retention mechanism prevents the biasing member from advancing the first plunger in an engaged position and permits the biasing member to advance the first plunger in a released position.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.Inventors: Todd Oda, George Mansour, Eugene Mason
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Patent number: D989106Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: John Langan, Kelly Daoust, Luis Shriner, Craig Mitchell, Wendy Smyth, Laura Collins, Patricia West, Claire Knight
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Patent number: D989107Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: CAREFUSION 303, INC.Inventors: John Langan, Kelly Daoust, Luis Shriner, Craig Mitchell, Wendy Smyth, Laura Collins, Patricia West, Claire Knight
