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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2024
Icu Medical, Inc., San Clemente, CA (US);
Prakash Kumar Arvind Jha, San Diego, CA (US);
James Cudney, Santee, CA (US);
Benjamin Herr, Kelso, WA (US);
Mark I. Lee, Poway, CA (US);
Matteo D. Picinich, Temecula, CA (US);
ICU Medical, Inc., San Clemente, CA (US);
Abstract
A medical device communication method that may be implemented within a variety of medical devices including but not limited to infusion pumps. The method may be implemented with a protocol stack for at least intra-device communication. Embodiments provide connection-oriented, connectionless-oriented, broadcast and multicast data exchange with priority handling of data, fragmentation, and reassembly of data, unique static and dynamic address assignment and hot swap capability for connected peripherals or subsystems.