ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,262, issued on June 23, was assigned to Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Clutch for disposable pump cartridge" was invented by Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel) and Stanislav Katzir (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for mechanically coupling a motor to a rotor includes an outer ring including an inner surface shaped to define multiple recesses, an inner ring disposed within the outer ring and shaped to define multiple compartments having respective outer openings, which face the outer ring, ...