US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on Sept. 23 for "Methods and compositions for decontaminating PD catheters" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,317, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Methods and compositions for decontaminating PD catheters" was invented by Garrick Lawrence Maenle (Arlington-Heights, Ill.), Robert Radford (Evanston, Ill.), Cristian Adolfo Menzel Bueno (Gurnee, Ill.), Mark Edward Pasmore (Grayslake, Ill.) and Shawn Collin Oppegard (Fox River Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing peritoneal dialysis (PD), the method comprising: delivering a PD fluid to the peritoneal cavity of a patient through a PD catheter; dwelling the PD fluid with...