US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on May 13 for "Extracorporeal blood line set and blood treatment machine" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,084, issued on May 13, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Extracorporeal blood line set and blood treatment machine" was invented by Waldemar Janik (Melsungen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood line set for a blood treatment machine or as part of a blood treatment machine, especially a dialysis machine. The extracorporeal blood line set includes an arterial blood line having a distal patient access and a proximal device port, preferably a dialyzer port, a venous blood line having a distal patient access and a proximal device port, preferably a dialyzer port, and at least one fluid s...