US Patent Issued to Paragonix Technologies on June 16 for "Hypothermic tissue storage" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,180, issued on June 16, was assigned to Paragonix Technologies Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Hypothermic tissue storage" was invented by Steve Bornhoft (Waltham, Mass.), Barry Gellman (Waltham, Mass.) and William Lucas Churchill (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods for the hypothermic storage of biological samples, such as tissues, organs, or body fluids between arrival at a transplantation site and transplantation. In some examples, various cooling media may be positioned in and around a container used to for the hypothermic storage."

The patent was filed on March 7, 2025, under...