ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,646, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Medical device system and method having a distributed database" was invented by Par Lofgren (Lund, Sweden), Sture Hobro (Lund, Sweden), Roger Nilsson (Hoor, Sweden), Roland Persson (Limhamn, Sweden) and Peter Ridell (Sodra Sandby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device system includes renal failure therapy machines each including a memory. The renal failure therapy machines are communicatively coupled such that the memories collectively form a distributed database. The system also includes a logic implementer associated with each renal failure t...