US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland on May 13 for "Prescription compatibility checking for a medical device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,077, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Prescription compatibility checking for a medical device" was invented by Paul Chamney (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Harvey Cohen (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical treatment machine, such as a home dialysis machine, can receive prescription parameters that define parameters of a medical treatment to be administered to a patient. A medical prescription is entered by a clinician into a clinical information system (CIS) that calls a system to evaluate...