ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,313, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MEDOVATE Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method and system for controllably administering fluid to a patient and/or for controllably withdrawing fluid from the patient" was invented by George Adaniya (Rockport, Mass.), Howard Donnelly (Needham, Mass.), Eric Mathews (Walpole, Mass.), Hayden Taylor (Windham, N.H.) and Andrew Whitehead (Hingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for controllably administering and/or withdrawing fluid from a patient. In one embodiment, the system may include an infusion needle, a pump adapted to be operably coupled to the infusion needle for cr...