US Patent Issued to NxStage Medical on June 9 for "Parameter monitoring in medical treatment systems" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,022, issued on June 9, was assigned to NxStage Medical Inc. (Lawrence, Mass.).

"Parameter monitoring in medical treatment systems" was invented by Mark T. Wyeth (Andover, Mass.), Robert Paul Mccarty (Reading, Mass.), Gregory Yantz (Boxford, Mass.), James Ian Johnson (Culver City, Calif.), Joseph E. Turk Jr. (North Andover, Mass.), James M. Brugger (Newburyport, Mass.) and Jeffrey H. Burbank (Manchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood treatment system with pressure sensors may be configured to control blood flow to and from the patient and use readings of the pressure sensors to determine a change in a pressure drop acros...