US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on Dec. 2 for "Medical appliance for extracorporeal blood treatment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,209, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Medical appliance for extracorporeal blood treatment" was invented by Sebastian Horschke (Hessisch Lichtenau, Germany) and Marco Jakobi (Uder, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical appliance for use in extracorporeal blood treatment. The appliance includes a housing component, a cover and a pivot bearing arrangement by which the cover is mounted on the housing component. The cover is pivotable between a covering position, in which the housing component is covered, and a exposure position, in which the housing component is exposed. The pivot bea...