ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,097, issued on May 27, was assigned to Southern Medical University Zhujiang Hospital (China).
"Combined bio-artificial liver support system" was invented by Yi Gao (Guangdong, China) and Yang Li (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined bio-artificial liver support system, includes branch tubes that are connected in sequence: a blood input branch tube, an upstream tail end of which is set as a blood input end, a first plasma separation branch tube comprising at least a first plasma separator, a non-biological purification branch tube comprising at least a plasma perfusion device and a bilirubin adsorber, a biologica...