US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on Jan. 13 for "Occlusion force reduction through multi- directional tolerance control" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,485, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Occlusion force reduction through multi- directional tolerance control" was invented by Jiri Slaby (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Steve Pippin (Libertyville, Ill.) and Kendall Dean Yeager (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion pumping mechanism includes a motor, a plurality of pump fingers and an opposing plate. Each finger of the pump fingers includes a body portion and a head portion. The head portion includes a tip that is configured to contact and occlude a tube installed in the pumpi...