US Patent Issued to Paragonix Technologies on March 3 for "Apparatus for tissue transport and preservation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,187, issued on March 3, was assigned to Paragonix Technologies Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Apparatus for tissue transport and preservation" was invented by Jared Alden Judson (Medford, Mass.), Lisa Maria Anderson (Cambridge, Mass.) and William Edelman (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the invention generally relate to prolonging viability of bodily tissue, especially lung tissue, through the use of an expandable accumulator to maintain a constant pressure within the lumen of the organ even during external pressure fluctuations due to, for example, flight. Systems and methods may include prolonging donor...