ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,553, issued on April 29, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).
"Blood treatment systems" was invented by Alexander Heide (Eppstein, Germany), Arne Peters (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Dejan Nikolic (Bad Soden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules th...