ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,562, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to NEXTKIDNEY SA (Lausanne, Switzerland).
"Automated extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus" was invented by Didier Vecten (Lausanne, Switzerland), Ricardo Allendes (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Paul Vescovo (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an extracorporeal dialysis apparatus which allows the automation of some operations in order to make possible a safe home treatment or to facilitate the treatment process for example the priming and/or the blood return process. Thus, the object is to automatically perform a series of processes from hemodialysi...