US Patent Issued to ICU Medical on May 20 for "Systems, methods, and components for transferring medical fluids" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,464, issued on May 20, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and components for transferring medical fluids" was invented by John Tagliamento (San Diego), Hung Quang Ha (Escondido, Calif.), Erik Scott Shauver (Tustin, Calif.), Thomas F. Fangrow (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Yordan Dimitrov Pargov (Rolling Meadows, Ill.) and Ivan Kurilov (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an electronic medical fluid transfer device can comprise a fluid transfer module with a multidirectional flow control valve and an intermediate container or pumping region, a sensor configured to detect whethe...