ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,985, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HEMOTUNE AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).
"Assembly for extracorporeal treatment of body fluids" was invented by Lukas Langenegger (Zurich, Switzerland), Carlos Mora (Zurich, Switzerland), Jean-Claude Metzger (Uitikon, Switzerland) and Ursina Haltinner (Niederlenz, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracorporeal treatment of a body fluid of a patient suffering from sepsis, in an extracorporeal flow line, comprising removing at least one harmful substance from the body fluid of the patient. In a first injection step, a first mixture containing functionalized magnetic particles b...