US Patent Issued to Gambro Lundia on Dec. 2 for "Extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus and method for checking the connection of a soft bag in an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,214, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus and method for checking the connection of a soft bag in an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus" was invented by Alain Frugier (Chazay d'Azergues, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus (1) and a method for checking the connection of a soft bag (30, 24; 33, 34) in the apparatus (1). The apparatus (1) comprises a blood treatment device (2), an extracorporeal blood circuit (3, 5) and a fluid circuit (8, 12, 15, 17, 18, 22; 41, 42, 44). A control unit (32) is configured to check ...