ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,815, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Extracorporeal circulation circuit" was invented by Takeshi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Sachiko Ishida (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal circuit includes a tube holder holding a pump tube and line tubes. The tube holder has first and second tube holding portions holding the pump tube in a loop shape and holding the line tubes and a fixing plate coupling the first tube holding portion and the second tube holding portion to each other. The fixing plate is configured such that a line-tube-side end thereof is inclined to a pump tube side fr...