ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,291, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Techniques for determining dialysis patient profiles" was invented by Peter Kotanko (New York), Xia Tao (West New York, N.J.), Nadja Grobe (Huntington, N.Y.), Gabriela Dias (Waltham, Mass.), Zahin Haq (Waltham, Mass.) and Stephan Thijssen (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for determining patient dialysis profiles, for example, of peritoneal transport status or disease progression, are described. For example, in one embodiment, a method of determining a patient profile of a dialysis patient may inclu...