ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,811, issued on June 30, was assigned to GAMBRO LUNDIA AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Device for cutting hollow fiber membranes" was invented by Christof Beck (Bitz, Germany), Rainer Blickle (Bitz, Germany), Stefan Ermantraut (Balingen, Germany), Bernd Hertzler (Balingen, Germany) and Steffen Wagner (Messstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device and a process for cutting hollow fiber membranes having a large inner diameter."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2020, under Application No. 17/787,730.

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