ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,159, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Braun Avitum AG (Melsungen, Germany).
"Tube roller pump" was invented by Marco Jakobi (Uder, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peristaltic pump for extracorporeal blood treatment has a pump housing that accommodates a rotor. The rotor is rotatable about a rotor axis. The pump also includes at least two squeeze elements offset in a circumferential direction to each other. The pump housing has a support surface extending arc-shaped about the rotor axis and spaced radially from the rotor. The support surface is configured to support a tube segment inserted radially between the rotor and the...