ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,561, issued on March 17.

"Organ support and temperature control device" was invented by Thomas Andrew Alexander Skinner (Halifax, Canada), Ali Dergham (Ottawa) and Luke Witherspoon (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an organ supporting device and a manufacturing system thereof. The organ supporting device includes a tube with a one or more bends to create two supporting regions for an organ. The supporting regions are connected via a connecting region. The tube is supplied with temperature control material, such as a cooling fluid, by a circulation component. The temperature of the organ and fluid...