ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,096, issued on June 24, was assigned to Nikkiso Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Blood purification device" was invented by Tomohiro Furuhashi (Shizuoka, Japan), Hideto Maki (Shizuoka, Japan), Ferenc Kazinczi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yuki Eda (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood purification device includes a blood circuit for extracorporeally circulating blood of a patient; a liquid supply circuit for supplying a supply liquid to the blood circuit or to a blood purifier provided on the blood circuit and a warmer provided on the liquid supply circuit to warm the supply liquid. The warmer is configured to sandwich and hold a warming...