December 16, 2004 - Dialysis-related patents granted this week:

• 6,831,064 - Use of urodilatin for treating chronic kidney failure with residual kidney functions
  
  
  
• 6,830,693 - Method for setting up a dialysis treatment in a dialysis machine
  
  
  
• 6,830,692 - Amino acid composition for hemodialysis
  
  
  
• 6,830,685 - Filtering device with associated sealing design and method
  
  
  
• 6,830,553 - Blood treatment systems and methods that maintain sterile extracorporeal processing conditions
  
  
  
• 6,830,367 - Dialysis solution system and mixing tank

Dialysis-related patent applications filed this week:

• 20040254513 - Conductive polymer materials and applications thereof including monitoring and providing effective therapy
  
  
  
• 20040254469 - Acoustically coupled ultrasonic transit time flow sensors
  
  
  
• 20040254514 - Wearable ultrafiltration device (see RenalWEB news summary)
  
  
  
• 20040254473 - Laser blood-flow meter and system for monitoring bio-data
  
  
  
• 20040254354 - Extracellular matrix-binding proteins from Staphylococcus aureus
  
  
  
• 20040249349 - Sealing luer
  

[This message has been edited by Gary Peterson (edited 12-16-2004).]