ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,191, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Examination of a reverse-osmosis device for the usage with dialysis devices" was invented by Christian Ruff (Oberursel, Germany), Thomas Pohl (Friedrichsdorf, Germany) and Michael Wild (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic safety system includes a RO-device configured to produce ultrapure water. The RO-device has a sensor unit for collecting sensor data. The RO-device comprises an electronic data interface in order to send the sensor data collected by the sensor unit. The system also includes an analysis...