ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,684, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DEKA Products Ltd. Partneship (Manchester, N.H.).
"Apparatus for infusing fluid" was invented by Dean Kamen (Bedford, N.H.), John M. Kerwin (Manchester, N.H.), Colin H. Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.), Jonathan Parker (Henniker, N.H.), Daniel F. Pawlowski (Mont Vernon, N.H.), Dirk A. Van Der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.), Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, N.H.), Christopher C. Langenfeld (Nashua, N.H.), Michael S. Place (Manchester, N.H.) and Michael J. Slate (Merrimack, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump for pumping fluid includes a tube platen, a plunger, a bias member, inlet and outlet valves, an actua...