US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on April 22 for "Dialysis system having fixed water preparation units" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,189, issued on April 22, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Dialysis system having fixed water preparation units" was invented by Freddy Hilbold (Loerrach-Brombach, Germany), Stephan Krietemeyer (Kandern, Germany) and Philipp Odernheimer (Kassel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stationary dialysis system includes at least two separate water preparation units, preferably of the osmosis type, which can be fluidically connected and/or separated to/from at least two separate ring lines according to selectable supply variants. A plurality of fixed, unchangeable hydraulic circuits representing the supply vari...