ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,846, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Blood pump system" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Frank Kirchhoff (Aachen, Germany) and Christoph Nix (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump system including a blood pump, an intravascular flow cannula, and a pressure sensor. The intravascular flow cannula is in flow communication with the blood pump and has a distal end portion distally from the blood pump and a proximal end portion closer to the blood pump. The intravascular flow cannula has at least one blood flow through opening at its distal end portion for bl...