ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,678, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Display connection through energy accumulator compartment on a fluid pump" was invented by Jan Schwarz (Melsungen, Germany), Matthias Schwalm (Schwalmstadt, Germany), Carsten Niemeier (Kassel, Germany), Simon Haemmerle (Kassel, Germany), Christoph Erlen (Kassel, Germany), Joachim Schuetz (Fulda, Germany), Gerhard Schoeffel (Blaustein, Germany) and Daniel Wolf (Bibertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical fluid pump having a housing which encloses an interior space. The housing includes an upper housing shell, a lower housing shell and a...