US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Wireless monitoring of hemodialysis treatment data in real-time via a blood monitor network" (Utah, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,979, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Wireless monitoring of hemodialysis treatment data in real-time via a blood monitor network" was invented by Louis Leegrande Barrett (West Point, Utah), David W. Peterson (Clinton, Utah), Brian H. Nathanson (Longmeadow, Mass.), Michael J. Germain (Hampden, Mass.) and Michael K. Black (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hemodialysis patient data acquisition and management system resides on a host computer which receives information from one or more non-invasive, optical blood monitors associated with a hemodialysis system. When a...