US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on May 26 for "Peritoneal dialysis system having disinfection gas relief" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,416, issued on May 26, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Peritoneal dialysis system having disinfection gas relief" was invented by Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjorn Fallman (Lund, Sweden), Per-Olof Borgqvist (Lund, Sweden), Bjorn Ericson (Lund, Sweden) and Markus Nilsson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis ("PD") system includes a PD fluid pump, a disinfection loop including the PD fluid pump, the disinfection loop including PD fluid used for disinfecting the disinfection loop, and an acid solution source positioned and arranged to s...