ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,568, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to PAVmed Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for priming a fluid line" was invented by Lishan Aklog (Purchase, N.Y.), Richard Yazbeck (Norwell, Mass.), Jessie Gifford (Sharon, Mass.), Julian Fricks (La Jolla, Calif.) and Peter Aliski (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for exhausting air from a flow pathway are provided. The systems can include a flow resistor having an input coupled to a fluid source and an outlet to output a fluid at an output flow rate, the flow resistor including an adjustable flow channel for modifying the output flow rate of the fluid flowing thro...