US Patent Issued to DEKA PRODUCTS on Sept. 9 for "Pumping fluid delivery systems and methods using force application assembly" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,268, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DEKA PRODUCTS LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"Pumping fluid delivery systems and methods using force application assembly" was invented by Dean Kamen (Bedford, N.H.), Larry Brian Gray (Merrimack, N.H.) and Eric Yeaton (Epsom, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dispensing a therapeutic fluid from a line includes providing an inlet line connectable to an upstream fluid source. The inlet line is in downstream fluid communication with a pumping chamber. The pumping chamber has a pump outlet. The method also includes actuating a force application assembly so as to restrict retrograde flow of f...