US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University on Sept. 29 for "Devices and methods for regulating temperature of organs during or before surgical procedures" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,768, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Standford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for regulating temperature of organs during or before surgical procedures" was invented by Keith Hansen (San Francisco), Victoria Cheng-Tan Wu (San Francisco), Nishant Mukesh Doctor (Pflugerville, Texas), Alexander David Sackeim (San Francisco) and George Korir (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are provided for regulating the temperature of an organ being transplanted that includes a housing including one or more walls surrounding a cavity sized to receive an organ ...