ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,295, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Dialysis system having adaptive prescription management" was invented by Alex Anping Yu (Safety Harbor, Fla.), James Grayson (Toronto, Calif.) and Robert W. Childers (New Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example peritoneal dialysis system is disclosed. The example peritoneal dialysis system includes at least one pump and a memory device configured to store therapy prescriptions including a first ultrafiltration ("UF") therapy prescription for removing ultrafiltrate from a patient, ...