US Patent Issued to Bayer HealthCare on Sept. 30 for "Stopcock apparatus for angiography injector fluid paths" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,247, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Whippany, N.J.).

"Stopcock apparatus for angiography injector fluid paths" was invented by Kevin Cowan (Allison Park, Pa.), James Dedig (Pittsburgh), John Haury (Sewickley, Pa.) and Patrick Campbell (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve assembly for a fluid injector system includes a valve housing, a first port configured for fluid communication with a fluid injector, a second port, a third port, and a fourth port configured for fluid communication with a patient line. The valve assembly includes an air detection region associated with the first port, a flui...