ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,671, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Outset Medical Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sterile interface connection of a disposable source of dialysate concentrates" was invented by James Ritson (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Edward Hogard (Odessa, Fla.), Gopi K. Lingam (San Jose, Calif.), Shih-Paul Chen (Los Altos, Calif.) and Dean Hu (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for performing peritoneal dialysis. According to one aspect, the disclosure provides a sterile interface connection for connecting a water purification system to a disposable source of dialysate concentrates. The steril...