Patents by Inventor Alexander Heide

Alexander Heide has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12558468
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system includes a blood treatment machine; a dialyzer configured to be coupled to the blood treatment machine, the dialyzer including a dialyzer housing defining a blood inlet and a blood outlet; a bundle of hollow fibers within an interior of the dialyzer housing; a pumping device drivable to force blood received from the blood inlet through lumens of the bundle of hollow fibers and out the blood outlet; a dialysate inlet port in fluid communication with a dialysate flow path that includes space in the interior of the dialyzer housing between the bundle of hollow fibers; and a dialysate outlet port in fluid communication with the dialysate flow path. The system further includes a fluid conditioning system configured to (i) prepare and supply fresh dialysate to the dialyzer via the dialysate inlet port, and (ii) receive spent dialysate from the dialyzer via the dialysate outlet port, recycle the spent dialysate, and supply the recycled dialysate to the dialyzer via the dialysate inlet port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignees: Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Lynn E. Jensen, Stephen A. Merchant, Arne Peters, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 12438433
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical pump drive comprising a pump housing and a pump motor provided in the pump housing. The pump drive also includes a rechargeable voltage source for storing electrical energy, or a rechargeable battery, for a voltage supply of the pump motor and a magnetic section for magnetically coupling of further pump sections, and/or for magnetically driving of elements, in particular a magnetically driven pump rotor. The pump also includes an electronic controller. The disclosure further relates to a pump, an induction charging station, a tube set, and a blood treatment apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2025
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Arne Peters, Dejan Nikolic, Juergen Klewinghaus
  • Patent number: 12339151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flow sensor for measuring a flow difference having at least two measurement chambers through which fluid is conductible; at least one means for producing a magnetic field for charge separation in a fluid flowing through the at least two measurement chambers; and at least one means for measuring an electric potential in the fluid flowing through the at least two measurement chambers, with the at least two measurement chambers being arranged such that they are run through by the same magnetic field line of the magnetic field for charge separation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Dejan Nikolic, Alexander Heide
  • Patent number: 12285553
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Arne Peters, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 12285726
    Abstract: A filter module provides biotechnological filtration possibilities lessening the danger of contamination while achieving an optimum flow profile. The filter module 100 includes filter housing 110, a filter with a bundle of hollow fibres 114 and a centrifugal pump rotor 132. The filter is arranged in the filter housing 110 such that the centrifugal pump rotor 132 forces a biotechnological liquid into the interior of the hollow fibres 114 via an inlet flow path where liquid enters the filter module perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the filter, flows into a hollow centre of the centrifugal pump rotor and is thereafter deflected to flow parallel to the longitudinal axis of the filter before entering the hollow fibers of the filter flowing parallel to the longitudinal axis. A filtration device 1100, 1200, 1300 includes filter module 100 and a drive unit for magnetically driving the centrifugal pump rotor 132.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, UNICYTE EV AG
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 12186471
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical device with respectively at least one hard part with fluid paths for guiding a medical fluid, for example, blood, through the hard part. The medical device also includes a converter and a device for determining a characteristic of the device. The converter is arranged to measure the characteristic of the fluid, while the fluid is present in one of the fluid paths. The characteristic may be geometric characteristic, for example, a fluid path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 12048790
    Abstract: The application refers to a medical treatment device a medical treatment system and a method for operating the medical treatment device and medical treatment system for treatment of a patient, comprising a sensor interface for receiving sensor data from a plurality of different external and internal peripheral sensors, a controller for processing the received sensor data in order to calculate control data and for providing the calculated control data for controlling medical treatment-related devices or for controlling a configuration of medical treatment-related apparatuses and an output interface for providing the control data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Karsten Fischer, Stephen A. Merchant
  • Publication number: 20240216596
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medical functional device or arrangement of components having a first blood circuit for extracorporally withdrawing and reintroducing blood from and to a patient (P), and a second blood circuit for extracorporally withdrawing and reintroducing blood from and to a person (D), wherein both the first blood circuit and the second blood circuit each comprise an arterial line and a venous line. In this, the medical functional device, or the arrangement, comprises at least one connecting device for establishing a fluid communication between the arterial line of the first blood circuit for the patient (P) with the venous line (73) of the second blood circuit for the person (D) and for establishing a fluid communication between the arterial line of the second blood circuit for the person (D) with the venous line of the first blood circuit for the patient (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Kotanko, Dejan Nikolic, Alexander Heide
  • Patent number: 11982295
    Abstract: A pumping device for pumping liquids includes a centrifugal pump with a radially pumping pump wheel having a hollow center, and is configured to remove accumulations of gas from the interior of the pump. The pumping device includes a detecting device for detecting a first operating parameter, a sensor for measuring a second operating parameter, and a control unit for controlling the pump. The control unit is configured to control the operation of the pump so as to remove accumulations of gas from the hollow center of the pump during liquid pumping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Heide
  • Patent number: 11925736
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignees: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Massimo Earl Fini, Lynn E. Jensen, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters, Christoph Wiktor, Marina Wenke, Tommy Huang, Dacey John Ryan, Stefan Kreber, Lothar Leick, Dzhuney Terzi, Hendrik Therre, Manfred Weis, Alain Veneroni, Reinhold Reiter, Michele Marini, Davide Maria Benelli, Brad Yang, Jiunn Teo
  • Patent number: 11896749
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH, Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Massimo Earl Fini, Lynn E. Jensen, Dacey John Ryan, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters
  • Patent number: 11759555
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical device comprising a printable electrical component (1), the printable electrical component (1) comprising a plastic substrate (L1) wherein at least electrical component (E) is applied to the plastic substrate, wherein the electrical component (E) comprises a dried conductive ink, wherein the plastic substrate is selected from the group comprising polycarbonate, cycloolefin copolymers, polymethylacrylate, polypropylene and wherein the dried conductive ink comprise silver and/or gold, wherein the electrical component (E) comprises feather-like and/or meander-like and/or spiral-shaped sections, whereby the medical device further comprises a fluid line, wherein the printable electrical component is located on the outside of the fluid line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Dejan Nikolic, Alexander Heide, Daniel Juric, Andre Buelau, Juergen Keck, Jonathan Seybold, Karl-Peter Fritz, Kerstin Glaeser
  • Patent number: 11752247
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Massimo Earl Fini, Tommy Huang, Dacey John Ryan, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters
  • Patent number: 11730871
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters, Christoph Wiktor
  • Patent number: 11724019
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an effluent bag for collecting accumulated blood treatment effluent. The effluent bag comprises a closeable effluent opening or connection to an exterior of the effluent bag. The disclosure further relates to methods, a blood treatment apparatus, and a discharge hose system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Beisser, Alexander Heide, Juergen Klewinghaus, Andreas Richter
  • Patent number: 11712504
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a medical device including, a hard part, a converter, and a conductive path. The hard part has fluid paths for guiding a medical fluid, in particular blood, through the hard part. The converter is arranged to measure a characteristic of the medical fluid while the fluid is present in one of the fluid paths. At least a first section of the converter or of the conductive path is applied to or superimposed on the hard part by a first additive application method. At least a second section of the converter or of the conductive path is applied to the hard part by a second application method. The first and the second additive application methods differ from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic
  • Patent number: 11712501
    Abstract: Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion. For example, this disclosure describes dialyzer systems that include a magnetically driven and magnetically levitating pump rotor integrated into the dialyzer. Such a dialyzer can be used with treatment modules that include a magnetic field-generating pump drive unit. In some embodiments, the dialyzers include pressure sensor chambers with flexible membranes with which corresponding pressure transducers of the treatment modules can interface to detect arterial and/or venous pressures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Tommy Huang, Dacey John Ryan, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters
  • Publication number: 20230142123
    Abstract: To provide biotechnological filtration possibilities with which the danger of contamination is low and at the same time an optimum flow profile can be achieved, the use of a filter module 100 is proposed, the latter having, in a filter housing 110, a filter, with a bundle of hollow fibres 114, and a centrifugal pump rotor 132, for a biotechnological production method, and a filter module 100 for the filtration of a biotechnological liquid L, having a filter housing 110, a filter arranged in the filter housing 110 with a bundle of hollow fibres 114, a centrifugal pump rotor 132 arranged in the filter housing 110 such that it is fluidically connected to the interior of the hollow fibres 114, wherein the centrifugal pump rotor 132 is able to be magnetically driven such that it can force a liquid L through the hollow fibres 114, a first port 102 for the supply of a biotechnological liquid L to be filtered, which first port 102 is fluidically connected to the interior of the hollow fibres 114 of the filter, a seco
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicants: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, UNICYTE EV AG
    Inventors: Alexander HEIDE, Dejan NIKOLIC
  • Publication number: 20230122802
    Abstract: The invention relates to a respiratory air purifier device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen HAECKER, Ralf MUELLER, Andreas ROESE, Alexander HEIDE, Markus KOEHLER, Benedict GLASER, Gerome NEWPORT FISCHER
  • Publication number: 20230084231
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flow sensor for measuring a flow difference having at least two measurement chambers through which fluid is conductible; at least one means for producing a magnetic field for charge separation in a fluid flowing through the at least two measurement chambers; and at least one means for measuring an electric potential in the fluid flowing through the at least two measurement chambers, with the at least two measurement chambers being arranged such that they are run through by the same magnetic field line of the magnetic field for charge separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Dejan NIKOLIC, Alexander HEIDE