US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on Oct. 7 for "Peritoneal dialysis cycler having disinfection" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,982, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Peritoneal dialysis cycler having disinfection" was invented by Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis ("PD") system includes a first volumetric balancing chamber including a first fixed volume chamber and a first diaphragm positioned and arranged to extend back and forth within the first fixed volume chamber, the first diaphragm separating a fresh PD fluid side from a used PD fluid side of the first volumetric balancing chamber; a second volumetric balancin...