US Patent Issued to Abiomed Europe on June 30 for "Blood pump" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,713, issued on June 30, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Blood pump" was invented by Wolfgang Kerkhoffs (Aachen, Germany) and Ellen Keysselitz (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to an intravascular blood pump, comprising a pumping device with a pump section and a drive section, wherein the pump section comprises a pump casing having a primary blood flow inlet and a primary blood flow outlet hydraulically connected by a primary passage and the drive section comprises a stator and a rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation and configured to rotate a primary impeller, the prima...