ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,708, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Corrosion-resistant permanent magnet for an intravascular blood pump" was invented by Claudia Mourran (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed to a corrosion-resistant permanent magnet, to a method for producing a corrosion-resistant permanent magnet, and to an intravascular blood pump comprising the magnet. The magnet is surrounded by a composite coating, the composite coating comprising, in the order recited, a first metal oxide layer, a metal layer, a second metal oxide layer, a linker layer, and a layer formed from po...