ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,551, issued on April 29, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Port arrangement, a purified water producing apparatus comprising the port arrangement and a method for performing port cleaning of a purified water producing apparatus" was invented by Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden) and Peder Flank (Bjarred, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing port cleaning of an apparatus having a casing, a fluid circuit enclosed inside the casing, and a port arrangement. The method includes producing a cleaning fluid with the fluid circuit; passing the c...