Patents Assigned to CareFusion
  • One-time priming IV infusion extension set
    Patent number: 11654272
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Jiagui Li, Rongjie Liang, George Michael Mansour
  • Syringe with priming mechanism
    Patent number: 11642466
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Oda, George Mansour, Eugene Mason
  • Fluid flow control by a non-pinching valve
    Patent number: 11642510
    Abstract: A pumping system comprising a pump comprising a door for access within a housing of the pump, a pump segment configured for conveying a fluid based on compression of the pump segment, a pump segment frame for preventing said pump segment from stretching, a visual placement indicator configured for facilitating in a proper placement of the pump segment frame in the housing, and a non-pinching valve configured to be disposed in the housing and to control a flow of the fluid without requiring pinching of a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: George Mansour, Chris Zollinger, Jonathan Yeh, Christopher J. Clarke
  • Medication tracking system
    Patent number: 11642460
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, from a volume meter at a pump configured to deliver medication to a patient, data indicative of a volume of a medication present in a syringe inserted in the pump. A first counter may be updated, based on the data, in response to the medication being delivered to the patient as a first dose type. A second counter may be updated, based on the data, in response to the medication being delivered to the patient as a second dose type. The volume of the medication delivered to the patient may be determined based on the first counter and/or the second counter. An electronic alert may be sent to a mobile device in response to one or more anomalies being present in the volume of the medication delivered to the patient. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including apparatuses and computer program products, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse J. Guerra, Prabhu Chinnaiah, Richard Stor Wu
  • System for filling containers with medical fluids
    Patent number: 11608201
    Abstract: Container filling systems are described herein. A container filling system includes a container assembly, a nozzle, a first roller and a second roller. The container assembly includes a plurality of containers, each having a container volume and a fluid manifold defining a fluid pathway, wherein the fluid pathway is in fluid communication with the container volume of each of the plurality of containers. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the fluid pathway, wherein the nozzle directs flow from a fluid source into the fluid pathway. The nozzle separates the fluid manifold into a first portion and a second portion to permit the fluid manifold to advance relative to the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Witt, Jude Cancellieri, Ray Isaacson, Ashley Rachel Rothenberg, Meghan Vellotti
  • Variable dose dispensing system
    Patent number: 11610658
    Abstract: A variable dose dispensing system may include a processor and memory. The processor may receive a request for a variable dose order of a medication, such as from a user. The processor may request an amount of the medication to be administered, and receive, in response to the request, an indication of the amount to be administered. The processor may verify that the amount to be administered is within a range of the variable dose order. The processor may determine an item in a local inventory that contains at least the amount of the medication to be administered, and may dispense the item. If an amount of the dispensed item exceeds the amount to be administered, such as by a waste amount, the processor may display an indication of the waste amount to the user, and may transmit a notification of the waste amount, such as to a management server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Utech, Kim E. Davis, Maria C. Jaskela
  • DUAL CHANNEL INFUSION PUMP FOR CONTINUOUS INFUSION
    Publication number: 20230082981
    Abstract: An infusion pump includes first and pumping segments configured to operate in parallel with each other, each pumping segment including a group of serially-aligned pumping elements configured to compress an elongated compressible channel loaded within the pumping segment. Each group of serially aligned pumping elements of the multiple pumping segments is caused to pump according to respective timing patterns offset from each other to deliver a first fluid from a first compressible channel loaded in the first pumping segment to a common delivery tubing while filling a second compressible channel loaded in the second pumping segment with a second fluid, and to deliver the second fluid from second compressible channel to the common delivery conduit while filling the first compressible channel using the first pumping segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Fanqing MENG, Derek Alan CARROLL, Daniel I. KIMM, Marc William WEIMER
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A LEAKING OCCLUDER VALVE
    Publication number: 20230078734
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for detecting a leaking occluder valve is disclosed. Upper and lower occluder elements of an infusion pump are activated to compress a fluid tubing filled with a fluid to isolate the fluid in an upstream portion of the tubing from a downstream portion of the tubing. While the fluid tubing is compressed by the occluder elements, a pumping element of the infusion pump is activated to compress an intermediate portion of the tubing, between the downstream portion and the upstream portion, to cause a pressure increase within the fluid tubing. Using at least one pressure sensor, a determination is made as to whether the pressure increase is present in a portion of the fluid tubing on a side, of an activated occluder element, opposite the intermediate portion of the tubing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. ABAL, Ramkumar SUBRAMANIAN
  • Management of pending medication orders
    Patent number: 11590281
    Abstract: Identification information for a patient and a user responsible for administering a medication are received from a controller associated with an infusion device. When a medication is scanned and information from the scan is received the system determines whether the user is authorized to operate the infusion device to administer the medication to the patient. If more than one order is available for the patient, pending medication orders for the patient are determined and presented on the controller for selection by the user before the administration. When a selected order is confirmed to be for the patient, and the user is authorized, the controller programs the infusion device to administer the medication according to the selected order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard M. Batch, Timothy W. Vanderveen
  • LOCKING SLIDE CLAMP
    Publication number: 20230054930
    Abstract: A clamp is provided. The clamp includes a flexible uniform body. The flexible uniform body includes an aperture configured to allow a tubing to pass through the flexible uniform body. The aperture is configured to allow unrestricted flow of a fluid within the tubing when the tubing is at a first position of the aperture and restrict the flow of the fluid within the tubing when the tubing is at a second position of the aperture. The flexible uniform body includes an engageable coupling mechanism disposed at a first portion of the flexible uniform body. The coupling mechanism is configured to, when engaged, cover at least a portion of the release point of the aperture such that the tubing is locked in place within the pinch point of the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond P. FEITH, Soon Y. PARK
  • Automatic association of medical elements
    Patent number: 11587671
    Abstract: An infusion system automatically determines when an infusion device moved within a physical area associated with a patient, and automatically displays an electronic list of procedures or prescriptions associated with the patient based on determining the infusion device moved within the physical area associated with the patient and receiving the indication of the operation. When a selection is received from the electronic list, operating parameters associated with the selection and the patient are automatically downloaded from a remote computing device to the infusion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: Erik Barnes
  • Associating an information reader and a medical device
    Patent number: 11581078
    Abstract: A device agent including an information accessor for accessing association information obtained via an information reader. The association information includes medical device information for uniquely identifying the medical device, and device agent information for facilitating in an association between the medical device and the information reader. The device agent also includes an associator for associating the medical device and the information reader based on the association information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Vik, Sreelal Chandrasenan, Gregory Borges
  • Low-force pumping segment
    Patent number: 11572871
    Abstract: A pumping segment having a low shut-off force is disclosed. The pumping segment includes a tube having an interior surface with at least two notches on opposite sides of the interior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa Davis, Robert Dwaine Butterfield
  • Portable inventory tracking system
    Patent number: 11568363
    Abstract: A system and method for managing inventory in a dispensing cabinet includes a mobile terminal, and an association station configured to associate the mobile terminal with an item type stored in the dispensing cabinet. The association station receives, from the mobile terminal, an indication of a respective item unit of the first item type being moved, determines an access status of one or more containers of the dispensing cabinet when the indication is received, determines a container location for the item unit based on the access status of the containers and receiving the indication of the respective item being moved from the first mobile terminal, and causes, responsive to determining the container location, a supply record associated with the item type and a first container of the dispensing cabinet to be updated to reflect a change to a first amount of the first item type stored in the first container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: Peter Godlewski
  • Infusion management platform with infusion data grouping logic
    Patent number: 11555729
    Abstract: An infusion management platform can determine, based on one or more infusion events, whether to group infusions or segments of infusions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Carefusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Sachin B. Naker, Tim Riddle
  • MEDICAL DEVICE WITH ADAPTIVE CORRECTION FOR UNCONTROLLABLE DELIVERY CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20230010762
    Abstract: An infusion device is configured to monitor delivery conditions associated with a medication infusion, identify an infusion set used with the infusion device, determine that the delivery conditions modify operation of infusion set, and determine correction factors for modifying an operation of the device based on a modification of the operation of the infusion set by the monitored delivery conditions. According to various implementations, an operating parameter of the infusion device may be modified, including modifying a threshold for when the infusion device will experience an alarm condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventor: Chun Keat OOI
  • Automatic network provisioning of a medical device
    Patent number: 11552995
    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: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Aron Weiler, Jeff Gaetano, Brian Sullivan
  • Intravenous priming cap
    Patent number: 11529507
    Abstract: A device for coupling to a fluid connector of an IV administration set to resist contamination of the fluid connector and IV administration set and permit priming of the IV administration set. The device including a cover body having a cavity for receiving the fluid connector, a priming passage for priming fluid from the IV administration set through the fluid connector, and a coupling tab extending from the cover body, the coupling tab permitting the cover body to be coupled to a length of an IV line or other portion of the IV administration set to resist contamination and permit priming of the IV administration set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Soon Park, Siddarth K. Shevgoor, Peter Ma, Jiagui Li
  • Filling station and method for filling a transport tray
    Patent number: 11524804
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for filling a transport tray having a reduced risk of incorrect fillings. In accordance with the disclosure, a target filling of a plurality of receptacles in the transport tray is transmitted to the control device and at least one filling template is produced based on the target filling and on a filling regime and is displayed by means of a display device. Then drug portions corresponding to the filling template are transferred to the receptacles, and an image of at least the receptacles to be filled in accordance with the target filling is produced by means of an optical detection device and the actual filling is determined using the image and is compared to the target filling. If no target deviation is found, the transport tray is released for transferring the drug portions to the machine tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Hellenbrand
  • Expandable drip chamber
    Patent number: 11517668
    Abstract: Drip chambers are described herein. A drip chamber comprises an inlet, an outlet, and a chamber body. The chamber body defines a chamber volume in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. The chamber body is movable between a collapsed configuration having a first volume and an expanded configuration having a second volume. The second volume is larger than the first volume, and the chamber body is configured to be moved from the collapsed configuration to the expanded configuration to draw in a medical fluid from the inlet into the chamber volume to prime the drip chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CareFusion 303, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Wang, Tomas Frausto, Todd Oda, Wantjinarjo Suwito, George Mansour