US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on Oct. 20 for "Priming apparatus and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,255, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Priming apparatus and method" was invented by Jonathan Yeh (Brea, Calif.), Jake R. Smith (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Soon Y. Park (Cypress, Calif.) and Tammy Nguyen (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A priming system including a resilient chamber having flexible walls and a first check valve in a first fluid pathway between the resilient chamber and a fluid reservoir such that a fluid flows through the first check valve only in a direction from the fluid reservoir toward the resilient chamber and the fluid returns to the fluid reservoir through a second ...