ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,805, issued on May 27, was assigned to MOKITA MEDICAL GMBH (Berlin).
"Flushing devices and methods" was invented by Richard Gerard Vecchiotti (Berlin), Tilo Kolbel (Hamburg, Germany) and Ernest G Schutt (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for flushing a medical device, comprising a multi-port valve for controlling the delivery of flushing fluids, the multi-port valve connected to a source of pressurised flushing gas; a fluid outlet for coupling flushing fluids to the medical device; and, a gas-driven pump connected to the fluid outlet, wherein, in a first configuration, the multi-port v...