US Patent Issued to Minivalve International on Aug. 11 for "Pressure controlled valve" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,814, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Minivalve International B.V. (Oldenzaal, Netherlands).

"Pressure controlled valve" was invented by Peter Lodewijk Joannes Nijland (De Lutte, Netherlands), Niels Scholten (Denekamp, Netherlands), Dimitrios Christianus Siepman (Denekamp, Netherlands), Jeffrey A. Carlisle (Portsmouth, N.H.) and Miranda N. Bakos (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical valve has a first port, a second port, a control port, and a fluid channel the ports. The valve also has a normally non-flat diaphragm within a housing configured to isolate the control port from the fluid channel, first port, and the second ...