ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,786, issued on May 5, was assigned to Advanced Flow Solutions inc. (Oklahoma City).

"System and methods for smart fluid transfer register applications" was invented by Dan Clevenger (Stokesdale, N.C.) and Jeff Hageman (Lindenhurst, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a smart pump register device used during fluid transfer operations. The register allows third party software, such as third-party applications, to be downloaded to the register. The third-party software may be downloaded from a cloud-based application store without hardware modifications. The third-party software may ...