US Patent Issued to DEKA Products on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for detecting vascular access disconnection" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,097, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to DEKA Products LP (Manchester, N.H.).

"Systems and methods for detecting vascular access disconnection" was invented by Dirk A. van der Merwe (Canterbury, N.H.), Michael G. Norris (Manchester, N.H.), Michael A. Baker (Manchester, N.H.), Todd A. Ballantyne (Amherst, N.H.) and Michael J. Wilt (Windham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting whether a vascular access has been interrupted in an arrangement in which two catheters or needles are present in a blood vessel, fistula or graft. A fluid line leading to a pump is connected via a first connector to a first indwelling cathe...