ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,796, issued on July 22, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Apparatus for extracorporeal treatment of blood" was invented by Dominique Pouchoulin (Tramoyes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus comprises a blood treatment device (2), an extracorporeal blood circuit, a blood pump (8) configured to be coupled to a blood withdrawal line (6) of the extracorporeal blood circuit. A closed fluid line (10) is connected to an inlet port (4a) and to an outlet port (4b) of a fluid chamber (4) of the blood treatment device (2), wherein the closed fluid line (10) together with the fluid c...