ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,338, issued on April 22, was assigned to GAMBRO LUNDIA AB (Lund, Sweden).
"On-line drying of hollow fiber membranes" was invented by Ulrich Bauer (Hechingen, Germany), Reinhold Buck (Alleshausen, Germany), Juergen Graf (Dormettingen, Germany), Helmut Hildwein (Voehringen, Germany), Bernd Krause (Rangendingen, Germany), Markus Storr (Filderstadt, Germany) and Arnd Wochner (Dotternhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a continuous process for preparing permselective hollow fiber membranes being suitable e.g. for hemodialysis, hemodiafiltration and hemofiltration of blood which comprises a two-st...