ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,938, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Method for filling a membrane" was invented by Joachim Noack (Bad Neustadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for filling a membrane filter of a blood treatment system is provided. The blood treatment system includes at least one blood treatment machine, a membrane filter, in particular a hollow fiber membrane filter, having a first and a second chamber which are semi-permeably separated by a membrane, and at least one first partial circuit and at least one second partial circuit. The first chamber of the membrane fi...