US Patent Issued to Gambro Lundia on July 21 for "Apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, disposable assembly for the apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,859, issued on July 21, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, disposable assembly for the apparatus" was invented by Dominique Pouchoulin (Tramoyes, France) and Thierry Court (Villeurbanne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, comprising: a treatment unit (10), a blood circuit coupled to the treatment unit (10), a blood pump (22) configured to be coupled to a pump section of the blood circuit, at least two fluid lines (40, 60, 70, 70b, 70c) connected to respective containers (48, 68, 78, 88) and to the blood c...