US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on March 31 for "Determining a volume of a container for dialysis treatment" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,191, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Determining a volume of a container for dialysis treatment" was invented by Matthew J. Doyle (Concord, Calif.) and Robert Zimmerman (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processor of a dialysis machine, a dialysate flow rate, a bicarbonate setting value, a signal from a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure within a container, and a signal indicating a state of a fill valve; determining, based on the signal received from the pressure sensor and the state of the fill valve, fill parame...