US Patent Issued to Gambro Lundia on June 24 for "Method for detection of flow obstruction in an extracorporeal circuit, apparatus and computer program" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,094, issued on June 24, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method for detection of flow obstruction in an extracorporeal circuit, apparatus and computer program" was invented by Anders Felding (Malmo, Sweden), Peter Marklund (Lund, Sweden) and Anders Sneckenborg (Angelholm, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal circulation blood or treatment device (100) comprising an arterial pressure sensor (112) and a blood pump (111) is set up to determine amplitude variation and frequency of the pressure signals received from said arterial pressure sensor (112), calculate a parameter value based on said amplitude...