US Patent Issued to PFM Medical on March 17 for "Protective device for the hand of a medical personnel when puncturing an umbilical cord of neonates" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,907, issued on March 17, was assigned to PFM Medical GmbH (Germany).

"Protective device for the hand of a medical personnel when puncturing an umbilical cord of neonates" was invented by Pia Welfers (Wegberg, Germany), Bianca Haase (Tubingen, Germany), Georg Kox (Wegberg, Germany) and Daniel Rauch (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a protective device for the hand of a medical personnel when puncturing an umbilical cord of neonates, comprising: an umbilical cord channel for receiving the umbilical cord of the neonate, two wings arranged at the upper edge of the umbilical channel as hand protection, the wings...