ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,897, issued on June 2, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Ultrafiltration control in extracorporeal blood processing" was invented by Henrik Hall (Lund, Sweden), Bjorn Ericson (Lund, Sweden) and Roger Nilsson (Hoor, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system operates (201) an apparatus for extracorporeal blood processing to extract, process and return the blood of an individual while removing fluid from the blood in accordance with a set value for ultrafiltration rate, UFR. The control system further obtains (202) sensor data representing one or more physiological parameters of the individual, and intermitte...