US Patent Issued to Transonic Systems on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus for identifying disruption of a fluid connection between an extracorporeal circuit and a patient circulatory system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,675, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Transonic Systems Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for identifying disruption of a fluid connection between an extracorporeal circuit and a patient circulatory system" was invented by Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, N.Y.), Gregory Galyanov (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Cornelis J. Drost (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for identifying a disruption of a flow from an extracorporeal circuit to a patient circulatory system, such as a venous needle dislodgement or an access-bloodline separation, is based on flow rate data of the extracorporeal circuit. A patient contribu...