ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,630, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany) and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Managing communications with a connected health system" was invented by Mihai Diga (Bad Homburg, Germany), Klaus Wolf (Bad Homburg, Germany), Stefan Perplies (Bad Homburg, Germany), Karsten Fischer (Waltham, Mass.) and Johannes Thoelking (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system, comprising: a medical machine; and a gateway device configured to communicate with the medical machine to allow access to a network, the gateway device comprising a data...