ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,340, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cytiva Sweden AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Diaphragm pump" was invented by Klaus Gebauer (Uppsala, Sweden), Andreas Lundin (Uppsala, Sweden), Andreas Marcstrom (Uppsala, Sweden), David Gronowitz (Uppsala, Sweden), Bjorn Johansson (Uppsala, Sweden), Mats Nilsson (Uppsala, Sweden) and Bjorn Olovsson (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diaphragm pump for a bioprocess system comprises a pump head (1; 101; 201; 301) comprising: a common inlet (3); a common outlet (5); a plurality of pump cavities (7) each including at least one cooperating pair of one-way valves, the at least one pair of o...