ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,067, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Valve actuation systems and related methods" was invented by Lynn E. Jensen (Syracuse, Utah) and Philip Scott James (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a valve actuation system includes a drive unit including an actuator configured to engage and move multiple valves disposed within a fluid cassette to selectively open and close each valve of the multiple valves and a positioning frame disposed adjacent the fluid cassette and along which the drive unit can be moved in three dimensions to align the actuator with a se...