US Patent Issued to Pendar Technologies, The General Hospital on Aug. 25 for "Donor organ viability monitoring using raman spectroscopy" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,847, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Pendar Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Donor organ viability monitoring using raman spectroscopy" was invented by John P. Romfh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Daryoosh Vakhshoori (Cambridge, Mass.), Peili Chen (Andover, Mass.), Shannon Tessier (Ashland, Mass.), Reinier De Vries (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Stephanie Cronin (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology includes a system and method for monitoring a donor organ tissue using Raman spectroscopy. The technology enables real-time quantification of the mitochondrial redox state in the ...