ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,703, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Heraeus Medical GmbH (Wehrheim, Germany).

"Device for temporary, local administration of fluids" was invented by Sebastian Vogt (Wehrheim, Germany) and Thomas Kluge (Wehrheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect relates to a device for local administration of a medical fluid having a hose which is flexibly deformable and has a hose wall. The hose wall has an outer wall of a first material, which is arranged radially to the outside, and the an inner wall of a second material, which is arranged radially to the inside and which delimits an inner conduit of the hose. In a distal porti...