US Patent Issued to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, BAXTER HEALTHCARE on Nov. 18 for "Peritoneal dialysis system and method for minimizing patient drain pain" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,294, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC. (Deerfield, Ill.) and BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Peritoneal dialysis system and method for minimizing patient drain pain" was invented by Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden) and Michael Pettersson (Malmo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis ("PD") system includes a PD fluid pump; a patient line for receiving used PD fluid pumped by the PD fluid pump during a patient drain; a pressure sensor positioned and arranged to sense a negative pressure associated with the PD fluid pumped during the patient drain; and a control unit config...