US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus for trending automated peritoneal dialysis treatments" (Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,354, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for trending automated peritoneal dialysis treatments" was invented by Robert W. Childers (New Port Richey, Fla.), Ying-Cheng Lo (Green Oaks, Ill.) and Peter A. Hopping (Lutz, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A renal failure therapy system for performing a peritoneal dialysis therapy is disclosed. The renal failure therapy system performs a plurality of peritoneal dialysis cycles for a patient and tracks an amount of dialysis fluid provided by a dialysis fluid pump during the plurality o...