ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,289, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Imperative Care Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Method of priming an interventional device assembly" was invented by Lilip Lau (Los Altos, Calif.), Steven Meyer (Oakland, Calif.), Kyle Bartholomew (Campbell, Calif.), Craig Mar (Fremont, Calif.) and Ian Peter Van Sciver (Tollhouse, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of priming an interventional device assembly includes providing the interventional device assembly, the interventional device assembly including a first interventional device and a second interventional device, the second interventional device being positioned within the first ...