ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,368, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Blue-White Industries Ltd. (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

"Peristaltic pump with offset rollers having different sized diameters" was invented by John T. Nguyen (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Patrick Michael Murphy (Irvine, Calif.), Robert E. Gledhill III (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Phong Thanh Phan (Garden Grove, Calif.), Thomas Tran (Fountain Valley, Calif.) and Hipolito Camacho (Whittier, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly for a peristaltic pump is provided. Each of a first pair of roller assemblies includes a first roller portion having a first diameter and a second roller port...