US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on March 25 for "Securing connections to dialyzers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,376, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Securing connections to dialyzers" was invented by Jose Omar Aguilar Flores (Pharr, Texas), Diego Suarez del Real Pena (Mission, Texas) and Irving Uziel Hernandez Gomez (Hidalgo, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings include techniques for securing a connection to a dialyzer or the like-e.g., securing the junction between a dialyzer port and a connector (e.g., a DIN connector) that couples the port to tubing of an extracorporeal circuit of a hemodialysis system. To this end, a locking device may engage both a DIN con...