US Patent Issued to DEKA Products on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus for monitoring, regulating, or controlling fluid flow" (New Hampshire, Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,476, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"Apparatus for monitoring, regulating, or controlling fluid flow" was invented by James D. Dale (Milton, Fla.), Stephen L. Fichera (Salem, N.H.), Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, N.H.), Dean Kamen (Bedford, N.H.), Matthew J. Lanigan (Concord, N.H.), Frederick Morgan (Bedford, N.H.), Dirk A. van der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.) and Brian H. Yoo (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system and method for regulating fluid flow are disclosed. An apparatus for infusing fluid into a patient includes a housing, a tube-contact member, a rotating arm, a...