ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,542, issued on July 15, was assigned to KPR U.S. LLC (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Method for operating a feeding set and enteral feeding pump" was invented by James Harr (Wentzville, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding set for use with a peristaltic enteral feeding pump to deliver nutritional liquid fluid to a patient includes a container having nutritional liquid. A conduit assembly includes tubing placeable in fluid communication with the container and adapted for mounting on the enteral feeding pump. The tubing provides a fluid pathway for delivering the nutritional liquid from the container to a patient when the tubing is mounte...