US Patent Issued to United Therapeutics on Feb. 17 for "System and method for maintaining organ viability" (District Of Columbia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,890, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to United Therapeutics Corp. (Silver Spring, Md.).

"System and method for maintaining organ viability" was invented by Randolph Vernon Monteiro Shelton (Washington), Jeffrey Robert SooHoo (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Simone Julie Gregor (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a fluid supply, a pressure regulator, a pressure valve, and a vent assembly. The fluid supply stores a volume of a fluid and is fluidly coupled to an outlet tube. The outlet tube is configured to be fluidly coupled to at least a portion of an organ environment. The organ environment configured to hold an or...