US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on Jan. 28 for "Integrated cross contamination sensors" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,187, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Integrated cross contamination sensors" was invented by Martin Joseph Crnkovich (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Colin Weaver (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Christian Schlaeper (Wehrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a medical system includes a dialysis machine having at least one outer surface to be disinfected at a given location, at least one disinfection sensor connected to the dialysis machine at the given location, the disinfection sensor including two...