ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,771, issued on March 24, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Integrated liquid flow closed loop sensing and control" was invented by Daniel M. Abal (San Diego), Brendan John Burgess (Poway, Calif.), Ramkumar Subramanian (San Diego) and Jay Jyotindra Dave (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated intravenous (IV) administration set includes a flow stop having a tubing fitment and a housing, the flow stop configured, in a first position, to prevent a flow of a fluid through the tubing, and in a second position, to permit the flow of the fluid through the tubing, the tubing fitment comprising a protru...