ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,382, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).
"Apparatus for an extracorporeal blood treatment" was invented by Reiner Spickermann (Burghausen, Germany), Carsten Mueller (Euerbach, Germany), Pascal Kopperschmidt (Dittelbrunn, Germany), Andreas Maierhofer (Schweinfurt, Germany), Alfred Gagel (Litzendorf, Germany), Gerhard Wiesen (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Liubov Smyslova (Bad Homburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for an extracorporeal blood treatment having an extracorporeal blood circuit in which a dialyzer is arranged an...