US Patent Issued to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND on June 10 for "Connection element and connection system for a blood treatment device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,874, issued on June 10, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Connection element and connection system for a blood treatment device" was invented by Winfried Brehm (Hofheim, Germany), Rafael Sterzer (Schweinfurt, Germany) and Paul Seit (Schweinfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a connection element (1) for a blood treatment device, in particular for a dialysis machine. The connection element (1) has here an inlet line (2), for letting in a fluid into the connection element (1), an outlet line (3), for letting a fluid out of the connection element (1), at le...