US Patent Issued to Bayer HealthCare on Jan. 28 for "Fluid injector system, method of preventing fluid backflow, and computer program product" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,239, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Whippany, N.J.).

"Fluid injector system, method of preventing fluid backflow, and computer program product" was invented by Michael McDermott (Pittsburgh), William Barone (Pittsburgh) and John Volkar (Valencia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid injector system and method for preventing pressurized backflow of a second fluid into a first reservoir containing a fluid is described. The fluid injector system includes a control device programmed or configured to actuate a second drive component to pressurize and inject the second fluid through the fluid conduit, and wh...