ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,884, issued on May 27, was assigned to PALMERA MEDICAL INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Therapeutic organ cooling" was invented by Aaron Berez (Mountain View, Calif.), Tina Ting Ye (Mountain View, Calif.) and Elaine Lim (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organ can be cooled to minimize ischemic tissue damage from a vascular occlusion by a thrombus or dissection. A catheter including a thermal member can be used to introduce cold fluid downstream from an arterial occlusion to cool tissue affected by the occlusion. This is particularly useful to minimize neurologic damage from a thrombotic stroke."
The patent was f...