US Patent Issued to Vantive US Healthcare, Vantive Health on March 3 for "Dialysis apparatus including therapy prescription selection" (Florida, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,665, issued on March 3, was assigned to Vantive US Healthcare LLC (Deerfield, Ill.) and Vantive Health GMBH (Glattpark, Switzerland).

"Dialysis apparatus including therapy prescription selection" was invented by Robert W. Childers (New Port Richey, Fla.), Alex Anping Yu (Safety Harbor, Fla.) and Borut Cizman (Highwood, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated peritoneal dialysis apparatus includes at least one pump and a memory device configured to simultaneously store a first standard ultrafiltration ("UF") therapy prescription with a longer duration and a lower dextrose concentration and a second standard UF therapy prescri...