US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on July 15 for "Automated peritoneal dialysis system having a drain purge" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,740, issued on July 15, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Automated peritoneal dialysis system having a drain purge" was invented by Jack Alexander Hornsby (Tempsford, Great Britain), Lewis Siu Tai Ho (Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Sergio Malorni (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Jonathan Paul Cooke (Cambridge, Great Britain), Akshaya Ahuja (St Neots, Great Britain) and Marco Troncone (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis system comprises a cycler including a pump actuator; a disposable set including a pumping portio...