ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,228, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).
"Monitoring device for recirculation analysis" was invented by Silvie Krause (Melsungen, Germany), Henrik Wolff (Melsungen-Adelshausen, Germany) and Marten Jakob (Klein Lengden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring method for an extracorporeal blood treatment machine, a monitoring device of an extracorporeal blood treatment machine, and an extracorporeal blood treatment machine including a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to detect a signal representing a concentration of pollutants in a used dialysis liquid, to autom...