US Patent Issued to Engineered Medical Systems on March 31 for "Ball valve for use in a respiration circuit and a respiration circuit including a ball valve" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,233, issued on March 31, was assigned to Engineered Medical Systems Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Ball valve for use in a respiration circuit and a respiration circuit including a ball valve" was invented by Bradley Allen Wheeler (Martinsville, Ind.), Jessica Mae Zinnecker (Indianapolis) and Kevin Michael Sempsrott (Anderson, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ball valve for a use in a respiration circuit, including a housing defining a ball chamber. The ball chamber communicating with a gas inlet and at least two gas outlets. A ball received in the ball chamber. The ball being configured for rotation about an axis of rotation within the...