ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,586, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).
"Concurrent infusion with common line auto flush" was invented by James Duane Jacobson (Lindenhurst, Ill.) and Gerald William Brann (Antiosh, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infusion pump system and method provide concurrent infusion with common line auto flush. The infusion pump system has a first reservoir, a second reservoir, a junction, a mixing chamber, a common line having one end in fluid connection with the mixing chamber and having a terminal fluid delivery end, and an infusion pump. The method includes infusing the first fluid at a first...