US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Jan. 27 for "Automated peritoneal dialysis system including enhanced pressure sensing features" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,447, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Automated peritoneal dialysis system including enhanced pressure sensing features" was invented by Jack Alexander Hornsby (Tempsford, Great Britain) and Lewis Siu Tai Ho (Hertfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical fluid system includes a medical fluid pump actuator; a medical fluid carrying set including a flexible sheet; a temperature sensor positioned and arranged to sense a temperature of the medical fluid flowing through the medical fluid carrying set; a pressure sensor...