US Patent Issued to Abiomed Europe on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for calibration and use in estimating blood flow in an intravascular blood pump" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,147, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Abiomed Europe Gmbh (Aachen, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for calibration and use in estimating blood flow in an intravascular blood pump" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Christoph Nix (Aachen, Germany) and Stefan Bonsch (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for use in estimating blood flow in an intravascular blood pump comprise retrieving reference data from a set of reference data obtained in a test environment. The set of reference data comprises, for at least one motor speed at different pump loads, including a first pump load, both ...