ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,820, issued on April 15, was assigned to Nikkiso Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Method for regenerating adsorber and dialysis system" was invented by Masato Fujiwara (Makinohara, Japan), Hiroshi Nimura (Makinohara, Japan) and Takayoshi Yokoyama (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for regenerating an adsorber which has a porous body and does not have an enzyme includes a dialysis step, in which the adsorber is connected to a dialysate circulation unit to cause uremic substances within a dialysate to be adsorbed onto the adsorber, and a regenerating step, in which the uremic substances which are adsorbed on the adsorber are d...