ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,465, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sorin Group Italia S.r.l. (Milan).
"Purger device for oxygenators" was invented by Andrea Zaniboni (San Martino Spino, Italy) and Claudio Silvestri (Quarantoli Mirandola, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purger device for hollow fiber oxygenators, including a gas inlet, a gas outlet, and a fluid communication feature between the gas inlet and the gas outlet. The purger device further including an accumulation chamber having a variable volume plenum ported to the fluid communication feature, and a flow control unit configured to vary fluid communication patterns in the fluid communication fe...