US Patent Issued to United Therapeutics on Nov. 4 for "Automated bioreactor system, system for automatically implementing protocol for decellularizing organ, and waste decontamination system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,015, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to United Therapeutics Corp. (Silver Spring, Md.).

"Automated bioreactor system, system for automatically implementing protocol for decellularizing organ, and waste decontamination system" was invented by Ryan Bonvillain (Cary, N.C.), John Cheadle (Durham, N.C.) and Thomas Petersen (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated bioreactor system for decellularizing an organ includes a main chamber for containing the organ. The system further includes a reagent chamber containing a liquid phase reagent. A reagent conduit delivers the liquid phase reagent to the main chamber, and a perfusio...