US Patent Issued to ICU Medical on Feb. 24 for "Method of enabling automatic filling of elastomeric pumps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,291, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ICU Medical Inc. (San Clemente, Calif.).

"Method of enabling automatic filling of elastomeric pumps" was invented by George A. Lopez (Laguna Beach, Calif.) and Thomas F. Fangrow (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid transfer systems are disclosed that can be configured to transfer precise amounts of fluid from a source container to a target container. The fluid transfer system can have multiple fluid transfer stations for transferring fluids into multiple target containers or for combining different types of fluids into a single target container to form a mixture. The flui...