US Patent Issued to Dragerwerk on Aug. 18 for "Process for supporting blood gas exchange by ventilation and extracorporeal blood gas exchange and system operating according to the process" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,733, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Dragerwerk AG & Co. KGaA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Process for supporting blood gas exchange by ventilation and extracorporeal blood gas exchange and system operating according to the process" was invented by Gotz Kullik (Lubeck, Germany), Tilman Von Blumenthal (Lubeck, Germany) and Bernd-Michael Dicks (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) for supporting the blood gas exchange of a patient (12) by means of a ventilator (14) as well as by a CO2 removal device (16), and a process for operating such a system (10), wherein a measured value concerning an expiratory or end-expirator...