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Letter Agreement between the Registrant and Sir Magdi Yacoub

 Exhibit 10.12 

			
	

	 	 200 Minuteman Road
 Suite 302
 Andover, MA 01810
 Tel: 978-552-0900
 Fax: 978-685-9562

 December 6, 2004 
 Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub 
 Imperial College London 
 The Magdi Yacoub Institute 
 NHLI at Heart Science Centre 
 Harefield, Middlesex, UB9 6JH 
 United Kingdom 
 Dear
Professor Yacoub, 
 I am very pleased to advise you of your election to the board of directors of TransMedics, Inc. The Company will pay you a fee for your
services as a board member at the rate of $50,000 for each year that you remain a director. Payments will be made in two increments per year of $25,000 each, beginning with your signature below. We expect to hold four to five board meetings per
year. In addition, the Company will reimburse you for the reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by you in connection with your attending or participating in full board and board committee meetings. In accordance with Company policy,
we will require that you provide receipts for these out-of-pocket costs and expenses. In addition, we will require that you execute an assignment of inventions agreement with the Company (in the form attached hereto). We expect to publicly announce
your election to the board of directors, including by issuing a press release. 
 On behalf of the entire board and employees, we are honored that you have
joined TransMedics’ board of directors. Please indicate your agreement with the foregoing by signing the enclosed copy of this letter in the space provided below. 
 Very Truly Yours 
 /s/Waleed H. Hassanein 
 Waleed H. Hassanein 
 President & CEO 
  
 AGREED: 
  

	
	/s/Magdi Yacoub

 Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub 

 TransMedics, Inc. 
 ASSIGNMENT OF INVENTIONS AGREEMENT 
 This AGREEMENT is dated as of
                                , 2004 by and between TRANSMEDICS, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”) with an office at 200 Minuteman Road, Suite 302, Andover, MA 01810, and Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub (“Consultant”). In consideration of the agreements set forth below, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Consultant and the Company agree as follows: 
 1. All
inventions, discoveries, data, technology, designs, innovations and improvements (whether or not patentable and whether or not copyrightable) which are made, conceived, reduced to practice, created, written, designed or developed by the Consultant,
solely or jointly with others, in the course of performing services for the Company, whether as a director, consultant or otherwise, or thereafter if resulting or directly derived from Proprietary Information (as defined below)
(“Inventions”), shall be the sole property of the Company. The Consultant hereby assigns to the Company all Inventions and the Company shall exclusively own any and all patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, and other industrial and
intellectual property rights and applications therefore related to the Inventions, in the United States and elsewhere and appoints any officer of the Company as his duly authorized attorney to execute, file, prosecute and protect the same before any
government agency, court or authority. Upon the request of the Company and at the Company’s expense, the Consultant shall execute such further assignments, documents and other instruments as may be necessary or desirable to fully and completely
assign all Inventions to the Company and to assist the Company in applying for, obtaining and enforcing patents or copyrights or other rights in the United States and in any foreign country with respect to any Invention. The Consultant also hereby
waives all claims to moral rights in any Inventions. 
 2. The Consultant shall promptly disclose to the Company all Inventions and will
provide the Company with any written records (in the form of notes, sketches, drawings or otherwise which document the conception and/or first actual reduction to practice of any Invention. Such written records shall remain the sole property of the
Company at all times. 
 3. The Consultant agrees that he will not, during the period of his performance of service to the Company or at any
time thereafter, disclose to others, or use for his benefit or the benefit of others, any Proprietary Information or Invention without prior written approval by the Company. For purposes of this Agreement, “Proprietary Information” shall
mean, by way of illustration and not limitation, all information (whether or not patentable and whether or not copyrightable) owned, possessed or used by the Company, including, without limitation, any Invention, formula, clinical data, vendor
information, patient information, apparatus, equipment, trade secret, process, research, report, technical data, know-how, computer program, software, software documentation, hardware design, technology, marketing or business plan, forecast,
unpublished financial statement, budget, license, price, cost and employee list that is communicated to, learned of, developed or otherwise acquired by the Consultant in the course of his service to the Company, whether as a director, consultant or
otherwise. 
 4. The Consultant represents that his service to the Company and his performance under this Agreement does not, and shall not,
breach any agreement that obligates him to keep in confidence any trade secrets or confidential or proprietary information of his or of any other party or to refrain from competing, directly or indirectly, with the business of any other party. The
Consultant shall not disclose to the Company any trade secrets or confidential or proprietary information of any other party. 
  

 5. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to its subject
matter; all other prior agreements, representations, statements, negotiations and undertakings with respect to such subject matter are superseded hereby except that the Mutual Confidentiality Agreement between the parties having an Effective Date of
July 13, 2004 shall remain in full force and effect. No amendment to this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of each party. This Agreement shall bind and inure to the benefit of
the Company and any successor of the Company by reorganization, merger, consolidation or liquidation and any assignee of all or substantially all of its business or assets, but this Agreement may not be assigned by Consultant. The construction,
interpretation and performance of this Agreement, and the transactions under it, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, excluding its conflict of laws and choice of law rules, and
jurisdiction over any action to enforce this Agreement, or any dispute arising from or relating to this Agreement shall subsist solely in the state and/or federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement under seal as of the day and year first written above. 
  

							
	TRANSMEDICS, INC.	    		  	
			
	By:	 	  
	    	  

	Name: Waleed H. Hassanein, M.D	    	Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub
	Title: President & CEO	    		  	
		 		    	Address:	  	 Heart Science Centre, Harefield
 Middlesex, UB9 6JH, UKSpecimen certificate for common stock of ICx Technologies, Inc.

 Exhibit 4.1 
  

					
	COMMON STOCK	  		  	COMMON STOCK
			
	NUMBER	  		  	SHARES
	ICXT-	  	

	  	
		  		  	SEE REVERSE FOR CERTAIN DEFINITIONS
			
		  	INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE	  	CUSIP 44934T 105

 THIS CERTIFIES THAT 
 IS THE RECORD HOLDER OF 
 FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF THE COMMON STOCK, $0.001 PAR VALUE, 
 OF 
 ICx TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 
 hereinafter called the “Corporation”, transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by duly authorized attorney upon
surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate is not valid until countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. 
 WITNESS the facsimile seal of the Corporation and the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized officers. 
 Dated:

 [ICx TECHNOLOGIES, INC. SEAL] 
  

			
	PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER	 	SECRETARY

 COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED: 
 American Stock Transfer & Trust Company 
         TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR 

			
		
	BY	 	
		 	AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE

 ICx TECHNOLOGIES, INC. 
 The Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class or series of stock. The Corporation will furnish upon request and without charge to each
stockholder the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each class of stock and series within a class of stock of the Corporation, as well as the qualifications, limitations and
restrictions relating to those preferences and/or rights. A stockholder may make the request to the Corporation or to the Transfer Agent and Registrar. 
 The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this Certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations: 
  

													
	TEN COM	  	–	  	as tenants in common	  	UNIF GIFT MIN ACT	  	–	  		 	                     Custodian
                    
		  		  		  		  		  		 	    (Cust)                               
 (Minor)
	TEN ENT	  	–	  	as tenants by the entireties	  		  		  		 	under Uniform Gifts to Minors
		  		  		  		  		  	Act	 	  

	JT TEN	  	–	  	as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common	  		  		  		 	(State)
		  		  		  	UNIF TRF MIN ACT	  	–	  		 	             Custodian (until age             )
		  		  		  		  		  		 	                 under Uniform Transfers
		  		  		  		  		  		 	  (Minor)
		  		  		  		  		  		 	To Minors Act _______________
		  		  		  		  		  		 	(State)              

 Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list. 
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED,
                                       
  hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 
  

			
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 (PLEASE PRINT OR TYPEWRITE NAME AND ADDRESS, INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE) 
  

  

  

                              Shares of the Common Stock represented by the within Certificate
and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint 
                              Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the within
named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises. 
  

							
	Dated:	  	  
	  		  	
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		  		  		  	NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST STRICTLY CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME(S) AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR AND WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR
ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.
	SIGNATURE(S) GUARANTEED:	  		  	
				
	            By	  	  
	  		  	
		  	THE SIGNATURE(S) MUST BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION, (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE
GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM), PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15.	  		  	

 KEEP THIS CERTIFICATE IN A SAFE PLACE. IF IT IS LOST, STOLEN, OR DESTROYED, THE CORPORATION WILL REQUIRE A BOND
OF INDEMNITY AS A CONDITION TO THE ISSUANCE OF A REPLACEMENT CERTIFICATE.

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