US Patent Issued to LIFELINE SCIENTIFIC on May 27 for "Organ container with oxygenation option" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,356, issued on May 27, was assigned to LIFELINE SCIENTIFIC INC. (Itasca, Ill.).

"Organ container with oxygenation option" was invented by Peter De Muylder (Londerzeel, Belgium), David Kravitz (Barrington Hills, Ill.), Christopher P Steinman (Sandy, Utah), David Pettinato (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Bernard Theunis (Lubbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organ container, which is for storing an organ or tissue and is able to be inserted into an apparatus for at least one of perfusion and transport of the organ or tissue, includes a basin configured to hold the organ or tissue and a perfusate bath. The organ container also inclu...