ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,614, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GAMBRO LUNDIA AB (Lund, Sweden).

"System and method for producing fluid for peritoneal dialysis" was invented by Christian Vartia (Veberod, Sweden), Henrik Lindgren (Genarp, Sweden), Per-Olof Borgqvist (Lund, Sweden) and Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing fluid for peritoneal dialysis (PD) is disclosed. The system includes a fluid path including two or more PD concentrate connectors that are each connected to a source of PD concentrate fluid, and an inlet connector connected to a fluid line arranged for transportation of effluent fluid from a pa...