ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,620, issued on May 6, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).
"Dialysis machine containing a device for the treatment of liquids, in particular water, and method for monitoring the device for contamination" was invented by Liubov Smyslova (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Gerhard Wiesen (Bad Homburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dialysis machine is provided that includes an apparatus for treating fluids, in particular, for treating water for dialysis. The apparatus includes one or more hollow fiber membrane filters, a plurality of fluid lines, one or more sampling points, and one or more v...