US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland on Feb. 24 for "Blood treatment systems" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,468, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Blood treatment systems" was invented by Lynn E. Jensen (Waltham, Mass.), Stephen A. Merchant (Waltham, Mass.), Arne Peters (Bad Homburg, Germany), Alexander Heide (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Dejan Nikolic (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a system includes a blood treatment machine; a dialyzer configured to be coupled to the blood treatment machine, the dialyzer including a dialyzer housing defining a blood inlet and a blood outlet; a bundl...