ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,544, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Whippany, N.J.).
"System and method for air detection in fluid injector" was invented by Michael McDermott (Pittsburgh), William Barone (Pittsburgh), Barry Iddon (Jeannette, Pa.) and John Volkar (Valencia, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector system for delivering a medical fluid may include at least one syringe defining a reservoir operatively connected to a piston; and at least one processor programmed or configured to, based on an air check protocol for detecting air in the reservoir, determine a baseline value comprising baseline compressibility data for th...