US Patent Issued to The Medical College of Wisconsin on June 3 for "Far red and near infrared light-mediated conditioning of tissues and/or blood to prevent reperfusion injury in endovascular therapies" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,626, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc. (Milwaukee).

"Far red and near infrared light-mediated conditioning of tissues and/or blood to prevent reperfusion injury in endovascular therapies" was invented by Nicole Lohr (New Berlin, Wis.) and Michael Salinger (Milwaukee).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reperfusion injury is limited during endovascular therapies (e.g., revascularization and/or reperfusion of end organ tissues) by conditioning the tissues against reperfusion injury using an optical fiber catheter to deliver far red and near infrared (R/NIR) light to the tissues. The light may be multiple ...