US Patent Issued to Gambro Lundia on Oct. 20 for "Flow rate dependent blood leak detection systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,235, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Flow rate dependent blood leak detection systems and methods" was invented by Daniel Ruhland (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods used to detect blood leaks (in, for example, extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus) by detecting the presence of blood in liquid above a selected threshold amount based on the flow rate of the liquid flowing through a passage (for example, a tube, etc.) are described."

The patent was filed on Oct. 4, 2019, under Application No. 17/283,746.

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