ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,958, issued on March 25, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Method and device for remote monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices" was invented by Georg Brand (Wuerzburg, Germany), Daniel Hauck (Sulzheim, Germany), Peter Kloeffel (Nuedingen, Germany) and Thomas Stahl (Esselbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of medical fluid management devices, in particular dialysis machines. The object of the invention is to design methods and devices, such that the monitoring and control of medical fluid management devices from a remote sit...