US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on May 13 for "Preserving sorbent devices in dialysis systems" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,079, issued on May 13, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Preserving sorbent devices in dialysis systems" was invented by David Yuds (Hudson, N.H.), Rachel Bartels (Somerville, Mass.) and Karsten Fischer (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dialysis system includes a sorbent device positioned along a fluid circuit for regenerating dialysate during a dialysis treatment carried out at the dialysis system, a filter coupled to an outlet of the sorbent device such the any fluid flowing through the sorbent device must first flow through the filter before reentering the fluid circuit, and a p...