# Jr Edmund A Barber — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Jr Edmund A Barber has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How the First Heart-Lung Machine Oxygenated Blood](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/2702035/heart-lung-machine-gibbon) — granted 1955
  A 1955 invention that allowed surgeons to oxygenate a patient's blood outside the body, enabling the first successful open-heart surgeries.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jr-edmund-a-barber

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