ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,232, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to DIALITY INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Hemodialysis system with variable dialysate flow rate" was invented by Brandon Borillo (Irvine, Calif.), Tzu Tung Chen (Irvine, Calif.) and Clayton Poppe (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable hemodialysis system is provided including a dialyzer, a closed loop blood flow path, a closed loop dialysate flow path, a blood pump, and a pair of dialysate pumps. A processor controls the flow of blood through the blood flow path, and the processor controls the flow of dialysate through the dialysate flow path. In addition, the processor stores a prepro...