US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland on April 7 for "Techniques for dialysis based on relative blood volume" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,366, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.) and Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Techniques for dialysis based on relative blood volume" was invented by Doris H. Fuertinger (Long Island City, N.Y.), Peter Kotanko (New York) and Sabrina Rogg (Bad Homburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and/or apparatuses may be operative to perform a dialysis process using RBV-based UF control. Embodiments may include methods operative to receive RBV target information comprising population-based dialysis data of real patient outcomes of a patie...