441 patents
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Dialyzer Manufacturing Tool
10 Jun 21
A dialyzer housing manufacturing system includes a molding device configured to mold a dialyzer housing, and a tool coupled to a robotic arm and configured to retrieve the dialyzer housing from the molding device after the dialyzer housing is molded.
Bryce Aaron Virgil, Bill Ray Cower
Filed: 4 Dec 19
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Systems and methods for treating and estimating progression of chronic kidney disease
8 Jun 21
Exemplary systems and methods for estimating progression of chronic kidney disease in a patient and applying clinical interventions may include determining historic values of at least one patient parameter that varies as a function of the progression of the chronic kidney disease over time, and computationally estimating a trend corresponding to the historic values.
Thomas C. Blanchard, Len Usvyat, Yuedong Wang, Peter Kotanko, Dugan W. Maddux, Franklin W. Maddux
Filed: 8 Aug 18
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Wave-based patient line blockage detection
8 Jun 21
A dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine) can include a pressure sensor mounted at a proximal end of a patient line that provides PD solution to a patient through a catheter.
William Scott Crawford, Robert Matthew Ohline
Filed: 27 Nov 18
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Augmented reality-based training and troubleshooting for medical devices
8 Jun 21
Augmented reality-based training and troubleshooting is described for medical devices.
Kulwinder S. Plahey, Stephen A. Merchant, James Peterson, Harvey Cohen, Matthew Buraczenski, John E. Tremblay
Filed: 25 Jan 19
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Health Tests by Personal Health Care Systems
27 May 21
A systems is provided herein to evaluate health of a patient.
David Yuds, Samiullah K. Durrani
Filed: 22 Nov 19
Utility
Pressure Relief Mechanism for Sorbent Canisters
27 May 21
A sorbent canister utilized when performing a dialysis treatment during hemodialysis (HD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD) is provided.
Colin Weaver, Daniel Schmidt
Filed: 27 Nov 19
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Smart cart for a dialysis machine
25 May 21
An intelligent support assembly, for example, a mobile support assembly (e.g., cart) for a dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis cycler), and methods for performing dialysis treatment using such an assembly.
John Aaron Biewer, Kulwinder S. Plahey
Filed: 14 Jun 18
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Controlling data output of a sensor clip assembly for an optical monitoring system
25 May 21
Systems and sensor clip assemblies for optically monitoring blood flowing through a blood chamber are provided.
Louis LeeGrande Barrett, David W. Peterson, Matthew A. Stowell, Perry N. Law
Filed: 24 Apr 20
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Microporous membrane and methods to make same
25 May 21
A method is disclosed for forming a microporous membrane that incorporates an additive having low water solubility at the membrane's active surface from a precipitation fluid.
Praveen Kosaraju, Monica P. Hall, Jiunn Teo
Filed: 10 Sep 18
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Social Virtual Dialysis Clinic
20 May 21
A social virtual dialysis clinic is provided that simulates social community aspects of a clinic group environment for patients undergoing a medical treatment away from a clinic.
Elijah E. Cocks, Stacy L. Blasberg
Filed: 3 Dec 20
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Systems and methods for estimating ultrafiltration rates
18 May 21
Systems and methods for estimating the post-treatment ultrafiltration rate of a patient are provided.
Michael Singer, Shawn Sobelman, Robert Kossmann, Martin Joseph Crnkovich, Roland Levin
Filed: 28 Dec 18
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Multi-purpose cap for fluid ports on a medical device
18 May 21
A multi-purpose cap adapted to fit onto fluid ports of different sizes and configurations of medical devices used for purifying or concentrating biological samples, wherein the cap is adapted to press fit onto diverse fluid ports on dialyzers and other blood treatment devices.
Nicholas Garrett Lofthouse, Devon Bradly Hall
Filed: 5 Mar 19
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Techniques for Determining Characteristics of Dialysis Access Sites Using Image Information
13 May 21
A dialysis access site monitoring system may generate a treatment recommendation for treating a condition of an access site based on a video of the access site.
Fansan Zhu, Peter Kotanko
Filed: 8 Nov 19
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Vascular Access Identification & Validation System
13 May 21
Techniques for vascular access identification and validation are disclosed.
Peter Kotanko, Stephan Thijssen, Anna Meyring-Wösten, Hanjie Zhang
Filed: 6 Nov 20
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Blood Treatment Systems
13 May 21
Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion.
Massimo Earl Fini, Lynn E. Jensen, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters, Christoph Wiktor, Marina Wenke, Tommy Huang, Dacey John Ryan, Stefan Kreber, Lothar Leick, Dzhuney Terzi, Hendrik Therre, Manfred Weis, Alain Veneroni, Reinhold Reiter, Michele Marini, Davide Benelli, Brad Yang, Jiunn Teo
Filed: 12 Nov 20
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Blood Treatment Systems
13 May 21
Dialyzer systems can consolidate multiple technologies and functionalities of blood treatment systems in a significantly integrated fashion.
Massimo Earl Fini, Lynn E. Jensen, Dacey John Ryan, Alexander Heide, Dejan Nikolic, Arne Peters
Filed: 9 Nov 20
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Piston Assembly Including Leak Detection In a Dialysis Machine
13 May 21
Dialysis systems and methods for operating dialysis machines (e.g., peritoneal dialysis machines) for conducting dialysis treatments are disclosed.
Kulwinder S. Plahey
Filed: 12 Nov 19
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Techniques for Image-based Examination of Dialysis Access Sites
13 May 21
A dialysis access site system may operate to generate a treatment recommendation for treating a condition of an access site based on an image of the access site.
Hanjie Zhang, Peter Kotanko, Leslie A. Charette, Carlos Muchiutti, Murat Sor, Elsie Koh, Dugan W. Maddux, Len Usvyat
Filed: 8 Nov 19
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Measuring Fluid Flow Associated with a Dialysis Machine
6 May 21
A dialysis machine (e.g., a peritoneal dialysis (PD) machine) can include a control unit configured to monitor an amount of fluid withdrawn from a heater bag line during a PD treatment.
Kulwinder S. Plahey
Filed: 5 Nov 19
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Maintenance Notification for Medical Devices
29 Apr 21
A medical device includes a plurality of electromechanical components and a control unit, coupled to the electromechanical components, that actuates the electromechanical components.
Daniel H. Schmidt, Bert D. Egley
Filed: 25 Oct 19