US Patent Issued to MACO PHARMA on Oct. 6 for "Clamping device for medical apparatus" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,096, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MACO PHARMA (Mouvaux, France).

"Clamping device for medical apparatus" was invented by Nicolas Coasne (Radinghem en Weppes, France), Pierre-Eloi Bontinck (Forest-sur-Marque, France) and Arnaud Chavatte (Saint Floris, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a clamping device for clamping a flexible tube having a bearing element with a bearing surface and a clamping element with a clamping surface. The clamping element moves between an obturation position and a closed position. In the obturation position the flexible tube is placed is along the bearing surface and the clampin...