US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Aug. 18 for "Systems and methods for selective occlusion of the peripheral venous vasculature to unload the heart" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,370, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for selective occlusion of the peripheral venous vasculature to unload the heart" was invented by Christopher Korkuch (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intermittently occluding a patient's venous vasculature to unload the heart while increasing cardiac output and improving perfusion to the patient's heart is provided. The system may include first and second balloon catheters that may be selectively actuated to intermittently occlude first and second veins for increasing venous vascular resistance in the pat...