ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,357, issued on Feb. 3.
"Dialysis apparatus which ultra-filters blood and a related method" was invented by Gerald Robert Glancey (Essex, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a dialysis apparatus which ultra-filters blood and to a related method of ultra-filtering blood ex-vivo.More preferably the invention relates to haemodiafiltration using protein-losing membranes and a secondary ultrafiltration and partial re-infusion of haemodiafiltrate for increasing extraction of middle molecules and protein bound uraemic toxins and reducing albumin loss."
The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2023, under Applicatio...