US Patent Issued to TDA Research on July 28 for "Portable dialysate generator" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,207, issued on July 28, was assigned to TDA Research Inc. (Golden, Colo.).

"Portable dialysate generator" was invented by Girish Srinivas (Broomfield, Colo.), Edward B. Metcalf (Denver), Allison M. Robinson (Arvada, Colo.), Joseph Leslie Fredrickson (Denver), Nathan Weinstein (Golden, Colo.) and Frank McCoy (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A man-portable dialysate generator with a forward osmosis membrane module, a concentrated aqueous salt solution reservoir, a non-sterile water feedstock inlet, and a collection reservoir that produces sterile dialysate from non-sterile feed water. The dialysate generator does not hav...