US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on Aug. 12 for "Peritoneal dialysis system having carbon dioxide injection to inhibit/remove calcium carbonate" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,663, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Peritoneal dialysis system having carbon dioxide injection to inhibit/remove calcium carbonate" was invented by Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjorn Fallman (Lund, Sweden) and Michael Pettersson (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis ("PD") system includes a PD fluid pump; a disinfection loop including the PD fluid pump, the disinfection loop including PD fluid used for disinfecting the disinfection loop; and a carbon dioxide (CO2), source positioned and arranged to supply CO2 to t...