US Patent Issued to Foundry Innovation & Research 1 on July 7 for "Dialysis catheters with integrated fluid status sensing and related systems and methods" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,848, issued on July 7, was assigned to Foundry Innovation & Research 1 Ltd. (Dublin).

"Dialysis catheters with integrated fluid status sensing and related systems and methods" was invented by Fiachra Sweeney (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dialysis catheter with an elongate body has a distal end defining blood removal and return ports communicating with internal blood removal and return lumens extending through the elongate body. A sensing pathway is disposed in or on the elongate body. A vascular dimension sensor is provided to dynamically measure changes in dimension of the SVC or IVC during dialysis. The sensor communicate...