US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 28 for "Isolated adult cells, artificial organs, rehabilitated organs, research tools, organ encasements, organ perfusion systems, and methods for preparing and utilizing the same" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,480, issued on July 28, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Isolated adult cells, artificial organs, rehabilitated organs, research tools, organ encasements, organ perfusion systems, and methods for preparing and utilizing the same" was invented by Martin Yarmush (Newton, Mass.), Basak E. Uygun (Cambridge, Mass.), Korkut Uygun (Boston), Maria-Louisa Izamis (Boston), Alejandro Soto-Gutierrez (Boston), Herman Tolboom (Zurich), Hiroshi Yagi (Brookline, Mass.), Carley Shulman (Sudbury, Mass.) and Jack Milwid (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of...