US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 18 for "Reduced oxygen carriers and their use for the treatment of carboxyhemoglobinemia" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,427, issued on March 18, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Reduced oxygen carriers and their use for the treatment of carboxyhemoglobinemia" was invented by Jason Joseph Rose (Pittsburgh), Qinzi Xu (Wexford, Pa.), Mark T. Gladwin (Pittsburgh) and Jesus Tejero Bravo (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In vitro and in vivo methods of removing carbon monoxide from hemoglobin in blood or animal tissue are described. Methods of treating carboxyhemoglobinemia (carbon monoxide poisoning) in a subject are also described. The methods include administering natural or ...