US Patent Issued to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND on June 16 for "System and method for opening a concentrate container and connecting the concentrate container to a blood treatment device" (German, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,935, issued on June 16, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"System and method for opening a concentrate container and connecting the concentrate container to a blood treatment device" was invented by Winfried Brehm (Hofheim, Germany), Philippe Laffay (Sainte Foy les Lyon, France) and Gerhard Wiesen (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a system and method for opening a concentrate container without the need for a human to directly handle the concentrate container and connecting the concentrate container to a blood treatment device. Aspects of ...