ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,664, issued on March 3, was assigned to NxStage Medical Inc. (Lawrence, Mass.).

"Treatment fluid devices methods and systems" was invented by Orlando Soto (Amesbury, Mass.), Joseph Rausa (Nashua, N.H.), James M. Brugger (Newburyport, Mass.), William J. Schnell (Libertyville, Ill.), Goetz Friederichs (Beverly, Mass.), Jeffrey H. Burbank (Manchester, Mass.), Joseph E. Turk Jr. (North Andover, Mass.), Scott W. Newell (Ipswich, Mass.) and Amanda Wozniak (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductivity measurement device includes first and second conductivity measurement flow channels positioned in a fluid circuit and flui...