US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on July 29 for "Dialysis training using dialysis treatment simulation system" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,236, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Dialysis training using dialysis treatment simulation system" was invented by Daniel Sloat (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for training operators (e.g., users), including new nurses or nephrologists as well as patients or their family members, to learn the intricacies of dialysis (e.g., hemodialysis) treatment through a simulation. The simulation may afford users the ability to fail catastrophically in simulated dialysis treatment, see the consequences, learn and internalize complex algorith...