US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on June 9 for "Automatic emptying of a dialyzer following a blood treatment therapy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,023, issued on June 9, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Automatic emptying of a dialyzer following a blood treatment therapy" was invented by Joana Sophie Schiller (Rheine, Germany) and Tobias Wuerschmidt (Hann. Muenden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus includes an extracorporeal circuit, a dialysis fluid circuit, and a dialyzer. A blood side and a dialysis fluid side of the dialyzer are separated by a membrane. A control unit automatically empties the dialyzer by setting a reduced pressure or negative pressure in the dialysis fluid circuit and by a passage of ...