ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,505, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Dialysis device for performing a dialysis treatment" was invented by Thomas Nurnberger (Burkardroth, Germany) and Stefan Kellermann (Massbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dialysis device for performing a dialysis treatment can include a liquid conducting system, which comprises a first section and a second section. A differential pressure sensor can be included for measuring a differential pressure pdiffm between a first pressure (p1) in the first section of the liquid conducting system and a second pressure (p2) in...