US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Self-sealing fluid connectors" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,145, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Self-sealing fluid connectors" was invented by David Yuds (Hudson, N.H.), Eric Bergman (Newton, Mass.), Jonathan Leclerc (Northborough, Mass.), Jessica Steuber (Berlin, Mass.), Areeba Zakir (Cambridge, Mass.), Laura Chang (Cambridge, Mass.) and Diego Suarez del Real Pena (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings may generally include a first fluid connector that includes a first body having a first central cavity that defines a first fluid pathway and a first seal within the first central cavity. The first seal i...