US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus and method for sustaining and evaluating isolated organs" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,910, issued on Oct. 14.

"Apparatus and method for sustaining and evaluating isolated organs" was invented by John M. Brassil (Lake Mills, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organ preservation system having; an organ chamber with a perfusate reservoir, a pump arranged to circulate perfusate, from the reservoir and passes the perfusate through a dialysis filter, oxygenator, and temperature and pressure sensors prior to entering the chamber where an organ is perfused. The organ rests on the platform such that perfusate leaving the organ flows into the perfusate reservoir. The dialysis filter having permeable tubes which allow perfus...