ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,953, issued on June 2, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Blood pump with filter" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Walid Aboulhosn (Aachen, Germany) and Christoph Nix (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an intravascular blood pump. The blood pump comprises a pump section having a proximal portion with a blood flow inlet and a distal portion with a blood flow outlet and an impeller for causing blood to flow into the blood flow inlet and towards the blood flow outlet. The blood pump further comprises at least one filter connected to the proximal portion of the pu...