US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, Baltimore, University of Maryland Medical Center on July 21 for "System for control of a blood gas exchanger" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,805, issued on July 21, was assigned to University of Maryland, Baltimore (Baltimore) and University of Maryland Medical Center LLC (Linthicum, Md.).

"System for control of a blood gas exchanger" was invented by R. Gregory Conway (Baltimore), Bartley Griffith (Gibson Island, Md.) and Zhongjun Wu (Marriottsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A demand-adapting and auto-regulatory ECMO system and method is disclosed that may be configured to provide complete cardiopulmonary replacement. The system and method employ a blood gas exchanger having a blood inlet, a blood outlet, a gas inlet, and a gas outlet, an oxygen sensor positione...