ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,064, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Paragonix Technologies Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for measuring oxygen concentration for lung preservation" was invented by Ben Bulka (North Waltham, Mass.), Arkady Shinder-Lerner (North Waltham, Mass.), William Lucas Churchill (Bolton, Mass.), Michael Tajima (North Waltham, Mass.) and Pratik Patel (North Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for maintaining an oxygen concentration of a biological sample. The oxygen concentration can be maintained by measuring the oxygen concentration within the biological sample and adjusting a rate of an oxygen suppl...