ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,413, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Supply system and process for supplying a medical device with a fluid, comprising a wireless actuating unit" was invented by Maximilian Behler (Lubeck, Germany), Falko Sievers (Lubeck, Germany) and Peter Kahns (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supply system (1) and process supply a medical device with a fluid. A fluid supply port (3, 4, 5) of a supply unit (2) provides a fluid. An actuating unit (6a, 6b) detects an actuation of an actuating element (7a, 7b) and generates a message containing actuation information, which identifies the...