US Patent Issued to B. Braun Avitum on Sept. 2 for "Extracorporeal blood treatment machine comprising a poka-yoke for a pressure sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,232, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to B. Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Extracorporeal blood treatment machine comprising a poka-yoke for a pressure sensor" was invented by Sebastian Broegger (Knuellwald, Germany), Michael Ochse (Melsungen, Germany), Kai-Uwe Ritter (Melsungen, Germany) and Thorsten Thomas (Schwalmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment machine includes a blood treatment device, a conveying device for conveying blood through the blood treatment device, and a connection mask designed to interchangeably receive a tube set in a predefined arrangement. The tube set has pre...