ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,583, issued on Sept. 1.
"Peristaltic pump head with hybrid rollers and tubing manifold" was invented by Ryan Sharkey (Charlotte, N.C.) and Joar Stenqvist (Raa, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peristaltic pump head with hybrid rollers and a tubing manifold includes a housing with a curved wall and adapted to secure a flexible tube within the housing. A roller assembly rotatable within the housing includes compression rollers and hybrid rollers. Each of the hybrid rollers comes into contact with the flexible tube during rotation of the roller assembly with the hybrid rollers being operative to partially decompress the flexible ...