US Patent Issued to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION on March 4 for "Evaluation of donor lungs during ex-vivo lung perfusion" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,648, issued on March 4, was assigned to THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION (Cleveland).

"Evaluation of donor lungs during ex-vivo lung perfusion" was invented by Kamal S. Ayyat (Cleveland), Toshihiro Okamoto (Cleveland) and Kenneth R. McCurry (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for evaluating a donor lung undergoing ex-vivo perfusion. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing executable instructions. The executable instructions include a feature extractor that generates a plurality of parameters representing the donor lung undergoing ex-vivo perfusion. At...