US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK on Sept. 9 for "Peritoneal oxygenation system and method" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,257, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore) and UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK (College Park, Md.).

"Peritoneal oxygenation system and method" was invented by Joseph Friedberg (Baltimore), Hosam Fathy (Kensington, Md.), Jin-Oh Hahn (Potomac, Md.), Mahsa Doosthosseini (Laurel, Md.), Majid Aroom (Preston, Md.) and Kevin Aroom (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for gas exchange in a patient are provided that use an external circuit to cause oxygenation perfusion in a body cavity (such as an abdomen) of the patient using an inert chemical (e.g., perfluor...