ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,459, issued on May 19, was assigned to Fresenius Kabi Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).
"Swing device for moving a blood bag and method for operating a swing device" was invented by Marcus Muller (Ortenberg, Germany), Lars Michel (Rosbach v.d. Hohe, Germany) and Michael Schafer (Friedberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swing device for moving a blood bag includes a stand, a tray for receiving the blood bag, the tray being pivotable with respect to the stand, an electromotive drive device operatively coupled to the tray for causing a rocking movement of the tray with respect to the stand, and a control device for cont...