US Patent Issued on April 21 for "Bioengineered artificial lateral liver (BALL) or bioengineered artificial ectopic liver (BAEL)" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,496, issued on April 21.

"Bioengineered artificial lateral liver (BALL) or bioengineered artificial ectopic liver (BAEL)" was invented by Mahesh Srisailappa Gopasetty (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments provide a bioengineered artificial functional liver which is connected to a patient suffering from acute liver failure and would functional like an ectopic liver. The device uses the cells derived from the patient's own body thereby nullifying the chances of self/non-self-recognition and related immune activation and rejection. The extracted liver cells are grown on a customized 3D matrix called as 3D cel...