US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Aug. 5 for "Medical fluid therapy system and method employing distillation" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,199, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Medical fluid therapy system and method employing distillation" was invented by John Zafiris (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid purification unit is disclosed. In an example, a fluid purification unit includes a heater configured to boil a fluid. The heater includes first and second electrodes positioned and arranged to contact the fluid. The first and second electrodes are configured to receive electrical power, heat resistively due to the electrical power, and transfer the h...