US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on April 22 for "Automatic priming of an extracorporeal blood treatment device using a push-pull method" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,193, issued on April 22, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Automatic priming of an extracorporeal blood treatment device using a push-pull method" was invented by Tobias Wuerschmidt (Hann. Muenden, Germany) and Joana Sophie Schiller (Rheine, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment device and a method for automatic priming of an extracorporeal blood treatment device. The device includes an extracorporeal circuit, a dialyzer, a dialysis liquid circuit and a control unit. The control unit is designed to control the priming such that a liquid is delivered from the dialysis liquid ci...