ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,735, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LivaNova Deutschland GmbH (Munich).

"Modular heater cooler with disposable heat transfer fluid circuit" was invented by Olivier Wolfgramm (Munich) and Michael Bonczar (Ampfing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (20) including a heater/cooler module (22) to heat/cool a first fluid in a primary circuit (28), a heat transfer fluid circuit (24) to provide a second fluid to a target device (38) to heat/cool the target device (38), and a heat exchanger (26) including at least part of the primary circuit (28) and at least part of a secondary circuit (36) through which the second fluid fl...