ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,303, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).
"Restless button access hemorrhage/needle disconnection" was invented by Andre Wagner (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device of a dialysis machine and a method for detecting a venous needle disconnection via venous pressure monitoring based on a threshold value setting. The device includes a button, preferably arranged on a screen of the dialysis machine. The button is configured, upon actuation, to set a lower threshold value and an upper threshold value depending on an actual pressure and to detect an incremental decrease in the...