US Patent Issued to DRAGERWERK on June 23 for "Device and process for connecting a patient-side coupling unit to a source or to a sink for a gas" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,473, issued on June 23, was assigned to DRAGERWERK AG & Co. KGAA (Lubeck, Germany).

"Device and process for connecting a patient-side coupling unit to a source or to a sink for a gas" was invented by Hans-Ullrich Hansmann (Lubeck, Germany), Sebastian Schroter (Lubeck, Germany) and Joran Blendermann (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection device and process connect a patient-side coupling unit to a source/sink of a gas including oxygen. The connection device includes a valve device with a first valve (40.1) and with a second valve (40.2). A source-side fluid guide unit establishes a fluid connection between the so...