US Patent Issued to DEKA Products on Sept. 22 for "Syringe pump and related method" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,122, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"Syringe pump and related method" was invented by Dean Kamen (Bedford, N.H.), Larry B. Gray (Merrimack, N.H.), Jesse T. Bodwell (Manchester, N.H.), John M. Kerwin (Manchester, N.H.), Dirk van der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.), Stephen L. Fichera (Salem, N.H.), Jonathan R. Thurber (Deerfield, N.H.) and Martin D. Desch (Newburyport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe pump includes a lead screw, a motor, and a sliding block assembly. The lead screw has threads and the motor is coupled to the lead screw to rotate it. The half-nut housing has a half nut ...