US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Oct. 7 for "Peritoneal dialysis patient line with sterilizing filter and drain bypass" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,979, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Peritoneal dialysis patient line with sterilizing filter and drain bypass" was invented by John Norman (Gurnee, Ill.), Edward Szpara (St. Charles, Ill.) and Karl Cazzini (Lindenhurst, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical fluid treatment system includes a source of purified water; at least one concentrate for mixing with the water from the source to form a treatment fluid; a disposable set including a pumping portion, a concentrate line in fluid communication with the concentrate source and the...