US Patent Issued to Avent on Jan. 20 for "Dosing control coupling for enteral fluid transfer and enteral couplings and syringes" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,723, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Avent Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Dosing control coupling for enteral fluid transfer and enteral couplings and syringes" was invented by Benjamin M. Davis (Woodstock, Ga.), Aaron N. Ingram (Canton, Ga.), Duane Webb (Roswell, Ga.) and Mariann Cary (Canton, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enteral dosing control coupling comprising a cylindrical collar defining a hollow internal chamber and a lumen extension tip projecting axially into the internal chamber, the lumen extension tip defining an internal lumen extending therethrough. In example forms, the lumen extension tip is integrally formed w...