ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,770, issued on March 4, was assigned to VIVONIC GMBH (Sailauf, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for preparing a medical solution" was invented by Patrick BeBler (Erlenbach, Germany), Stefan Eberlein (Hochberg, Germany) and Andreas Hemm (Alzenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for preparing a medical solution and preferably a dialysis concentrate solution that has a fluid system having a main circuit and a branch section in communication therewith, wherein the main circuit is a circuit in which a pump and a product container are arranged and in which liquid can be circulated by oper...