US Patent Issued to Zevex on Oct. 20 for "Enteral feeding pump docking station having integrated flush module" (American, Costa Rican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,076, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Zevex Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Enteral feeding pump docking station having integrated flush module" was invented by Kent F. Beck (Layton, Utah), Pablo A. Jimenez Castro (Concepcion, Costa Rica), Justin Lyall Smith (South Jordan, Utah), James A. Malmstrom (Kaysville, Utah), Daniel Sabin Szczotka (Midvale, Utah), Stephen J. Brown (Taylorsville, Utah), Jeffrey D. Geisler (Salt Lake City) and J. Ryan Stanfield (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for removable connection to an enteral feeding pump enables automated flushing of an administration set loaded in the enteral feed...