ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,295, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).
"Extracorporeal blood treatment device" was invented by Alfred Gagel (Litzendorf, Germany), Burkard Keller (Wuerzburg, Germany), Peter Kloeffel (Nuedlingen, Germany) and Martin Thys (Grettstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus comprising a blood treatment unit 1 that is divided by a semipermeable membrane 2 into a first compartment 3, which is part of a fluid system II, and a second compartment 4, which is part of an extracorporeal blood circuit I. The invent...