ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,005, issued on July 14, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Treatment profiles" was invented by John O'Mahony (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Andrew Wenger (Osseo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extracorporeal blood treatment systems and methods to use and modify/create treatment profiles for extracorporeal blood treatments. For example, treatment profiles may include one or more preset, or predefined, settings or values for an extracorporeal blood treatment such as, e.g., therapy type, therapy set (e.g., tubing set, filter set, etc.), anticoagulation type, and one or more flow rates, etc."

The patent was filed on July ...