US Patent Issued to Terumo BCT on Sept. 1 for "Automatic operational control based on detected environmental state" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,939, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Terumo BCT Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.).

"Automatic operational control based on detected environmental state" was invented by John Pittinger (Evergreen, Colo.), Stephanie Lynne St. George (Centennial, Colo.), Taylor Polodna (Golden, Colo.), Bruce Ellingboe (Littleton, Colo.), Charles L. Hake (Arvada, Colo.) and Evan Christopher Provan (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes detecting a condition including one or more of a change in flow of a fluid and a change in a composition of the fluid, issuing an alarm in response to the condition detected, lowering a flow rate; and a...