ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,073, issued on June 2, was assigned to GAMBRO LUNDIA AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Evaluating the integrity of a forward osmosis membrane using transmembrane pressure" was invented by Christian Vartia (Veberod, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provide herein are a control arrangement and method for evaluating the integrity of a forward osmosis (FO-) membrane of a FO device in a dialysis solution generation apparatus. The FO-membrane separates a feed side and a draw side of the FO device. The FO-device comprises a feed inlet port and a feed outlet port in fluid communication with the feed side, and a draw inlet port and a draw outlet port i...