US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Jan. 20 for "Automated peritoneal dialysis using bellows" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,901, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Automated peritoneal dialysis using bellows" was invented by Belur Shanthakumar Shashanka Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis system includes: a bellows; a common inlet/outlet fluid receptacle in fluid communication with the bellows; a plurality of fluid lines in fluid communication with the common inlet/outlet line; a linear actuator positioned and arranged to expand compress the bellows; a plurality of valves positioned and arranged to allow or occlude flow t...