US Patent Issued to ICU Medical on July 8 for "Medical fluid compounding systems with coordinated flow control" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,233, issued on July 8, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Medical fluid compounding systems with coordinated flow control" was invented by Philipp Marc Fister (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for compounding precise amounts of fluid from one or more source containers into at least one target container is described. The fluid can be drawn from the one or more source containers via an intermediate measuring container such as a syringe pump actuated by a stepper motor or other electronic motor. A system controller can use a measured back EMF value of the motor to determine a pressure within a syringe...