US Patent Issued to Vantive US Healthcare, Vantive Health on Aug. 11 for "Dialysis system having enhanced features including drip prevention" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,737, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Vantive US Healthcare LLC (Deerfield, Ill.) and Vantive Health GMBH (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Dialysis system having enhanced features including drip prevention" was invented by Roger Nilsson (Hoor, Sweden), Bjorn Ericson (Lund, Sweden), Mats Nilsson (Veberod, Sweden), Henrik Hall (Lund, Sweden) and Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjorn Fallman (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peritoneal dialysis ("PD") system includes a housing, a PD fluid pump housed by the housing, and a reusable patient line extending from the housing. The reusable patient line includes a distal end configured to be con...