ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,925, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Dialysis treatment modalities; method and devices" was invented by Peter Wabel (Rosbach, Germany), Ulrich Moissl (Karben, Germany) and Paul Chamney (Tring, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods for determining at least one treatment modality of a dialysis treatment of a specific patient depending on at least one value out of the group of values, a first value reflecting the overhydration (OH) of the patient, a second value reflecting the salinity or osmolarity of the patient, a thir...