US Patent Issued to IDEX Health & Science on June 9 for "Flow control assembly having localized non- volatile memory" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,687, issued on June 9, was assigned to IDEX Health & Science LLC (Rohnert Park, Calif.).

"Flow control assembly having localized non- volatile memory" was invented by Tim Tiemeyer (Middleboro, Mass.), John Ruf (Rohnert Park, Calif.) and Michael Brew (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for controlling fluid flow and in particular fluid flow through a microfluidic multi-port control valve assembly of a High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) unit. The flow control apparatus has a localized data repository for storing local valve position data and cumulative wear indications of components of the apparatus. ...