US Patent Issued to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND on March 31 for "Medical connector with automatic sealing on disconnection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,232, issued on March 31, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Medical connector with automatic sealing on disconnection" was invented by Tobias Weber (St. Wendel, Germany) and Robert Berlich (St. Wendel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a medical connector with automatic sealing on disconnection and to a method of connecting/disconnecting a medical connector."

The patent was filed on Sept. 1, 2020, under Application No. 17/639,940.

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