US Patent Issued to Gambro Lundia on Oct. 27 for "Dialysis machine and method" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,485, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Gambro Lundia AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Dialysis machine and method" was invented by Sture Hobro (Lund, Sweden), Roger Nilsson (Hoor, Sweden), Olof Jansson (Vellinge, Sweden) and Bjorn Ericson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a dialysis machine for draining an extracorporeal fluid circuit are disclosed herein. The dialysis machine is connected to a dialyzer and the extracorporeal fluid circuit, which includes an arterial line connectable to a patient for drawing blood from the patient and a venous line connectable to the patient for returning blood to the patient. The method ...