ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,586, issued on March 11, was assigned to Paragonix Technologies Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"System for hypothermic transport of samples" was invented by Lisa Maria Anderson (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jared Alden Judson (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for the hypothermic transport of biological samples, such as tissues, organs, or body fluids. The system includes a self-purging preservation apparatus to suspend a sample in preservation fluid and perfuse a tissue with preservation fluid. The self-purging preservation apparatus is placed in an insulated transport container having a cooling medium. When assembled, the sy...