US Patent Issued to Foundry Innovation & Research 1 on Nov. 11 for "Patient fluid management systems and methods employing integrated fluid status sensing" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,324, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Foundry Innovation & Research 1 Ltd. (Dublin).

"Patient fluid management systems and methods employing integrated fluid status sensing" was invented by Fiachra M. Sweeney (Dublin), Hanson S. Gifford III (Woodside, Calif.), Annette Kent (Dublin) and Conor M. Hanley (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Patient fluid management systems, particularly for use in treating patients at various stages of heart failure, are disclosed. Disclosed systems employ vascular dimension monitoring sensors to provide accurate, early, real-time estimation of circulating blood volume as an input metric to the syst...