US Patent Issued to Maquet Cardiopulmonary on Aug. 11 for "Working fluid treatment device for mass transfer between a working fluid and two fluid exchange media" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,744, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Maquet Cardiopulmonary GmbH (Rastatt, Germany).

"Working fluid treatment device for mass transfer between a working fluid and two fluid exchange media" was invented by Mathias Nakel (Burladingen/Ringingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood treatment device comprises a single housing defining an internal blood flow cavity. The housing accommodates an oxygenator, a heat exchanger and an additional mass transfer assembly, each having an array of fluid conduits. The arrays are co-located within the internal blood flow cavity such that blood flowing through the internal ...