ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,367, issued on April 7, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"System and method for producing fluid for peritoneal dialysis" was invented by Christian Vartia (Veberod, Sweden), Henrik Lindgren (Genarp, Sweden), Per-Olof Borgqvist (Lund, Sweden) and Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for producing fluid for peritoneal dialysis (PD) is disclosed. The system comprises a fluid path including one or more PD-concentrate connectors each connected to one or more sources of PD-concentrate fluid, and a water connector connected to a source of water. The system further includes a forwar...