US Patent Issued to TRANSMEDICS on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for ex-vivo organ care and for using lactate as an indication of donor organ status" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,454, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TRANSMEDICS INC. (Andover, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for ex-vivo organ care and for using lactate as an indication of donor organ status" was invented by Waleed H. Hassanein (North Andover, Mass.), Tamer I. Khayal (North Andover, Mass.), Ahmed Elbetanony (North Andover, Mass.), Paul Lezberg (Westford, Mass.), Giovanni Cecere (Needham, Mass.), Dennis Sousa (Wakefield, Mass.) and Elizabeth Hansen Bulger (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides, in various embodiments, systems, devices and methods relating to ex-vivo organ care. In certain embodiments, the disclo...