ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,448, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Volutrol Inc. (London, Canada).
"Wearable hemofiltration artificial kidney" was invented by Gordon John Campbell (London, Canada), Robert McGregor Lindsay (London, Canada), Salem Treesh (London, Canada), Shih Han Huang (London, Canada), Charles Anthony Rupar (London, Canada) and Robert Gonzales Barbeito (London, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial kidney configured to automatically or semi-automatically perform priming, procedure running, purging, flushing, and procedure ending. The artificial kidney is wearable and can be used while ambulating, sitting, and lying down. The arti...