US Patent Issued to Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on Feb. 17 for "Organ perfusion system and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,889, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Organ perfusion system and method" was invented by Simon Messer (Cambridge, Great Britain), Pedro Catarino (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Stephen Large (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An organ perfusion system (100) for extracorporeal perfusion of a heart (1) includes an organ chamber (15) having an aortic connector (17), and a first fluid flow path (19) comprising a pump interface (23) and an oxygenator (25), the aortic connector being fluidly connected to the first fluid flow path. The system is...