ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,353, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).
"Peritoneal dialysis system using ideal gas law" was invented by John Zafiris (Hawthorn Woods, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis system includes a control unit is programmed to cause (i) a pressure sensor to take a first pressure reading of a reference chamber with a pneumatic valve closed, (ii) a pump actuator to pump fresh dialysis fluid through a fresh dialysis fluid pathway into a patient line expandable chamber, expanding the expandable chamber into a dome, (iii) the pneum...