US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland on Feb. 24 for "Tube insert for a hydraulic tubing set of a blood treatment apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,465, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Tube insert for a hydraulic tubing set of a blood treatment apparatus" was invented by Franz Pleiner (Estenfeld, Germany) and Udo Kirstgen (Rottenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tube insert for a dialysis liquid line or a hydraulic tubing set, the tube insert including at least one housing; a first connection point for connecting a tube section of the hydraulic tubing set to the tube insert; a second connection point for connecting a second tube section of the hydraulic tubing set t...