Following a decision by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the invention ‘Blood Oxygenator with an Organic Membrane’—a device for oxygenating blood using a membrane made of organic material—has been granted patent protection in the United States. The patent is a joint one, granted to the University of Silesia and the Medical University of Silesia.
The authors of the invention are: Andrzej Swinarew, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof., Jadwiga Gabor, MSc, and Hubert Okła, PhD from the University of Silesia, Szymon Skoczyński, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. of the Medical University of Silesia, and Ewa Trejnowska, PhD, DSc, Mateusz Przybyła, Prof. Grzegorz Brożek, MD, PhD, DHSc, Agnieszka Skoczyńska, Prof. Piotr Knapik, MD, PhD, Michał Zembala, Prof. Tomasz Darocha, MD, PhD, Konrad Mendrala, DPharm, MD, and Prof. Katarzyna Mizia-Stec, MD, PhD, from the Medical University of Silesia, as well as Arkadiusz Stanula, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof., of the Academy of Physical Education in Katowice.
The invention has been filed for protection under the international Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) procedure overseen by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, with designation for protection in the USA.
This is the first patent in the history of the University of Silesia to be granted in the USA and one of the few protected outside Poland.
You can read more about the patent and its potential applications in an article by Małgorzata Kłoskowicz, PhD from the Media Communication Centre.
In the photo from the left: Szymon Skoczyński, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. of the Medical University of Silesia; Ewa Trejnowska, PhD, DSc and Andrzej Swinarew, PhD, DSc, Assoc. Prof. | private archive