ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,520, issued on June 3, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Container for fluids and apparatus for temperature control, e.g. warming, of medical fluids" was invented by Dominique Pouchoulin (Tramoyes, France) and Eugen Nisipeanu (Wadsworth, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for warming fluids comprises an inlet port, an outlet port, a fluid conduit configured for fluidly communicating the inlet and outlet ports, and deflection sections. The fluid conduit has a non-constant maximum width in a direction of fluid flow through the fluid conduit. The deflection sections further comprise an entry section and an ex...