US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Dec. 9 for "Left ventricular volume and cardiac output estimation using machine learning model" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,292, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Left ventricular volume and cardiac output estimation using machine learning model" was invented by Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.), Qing Tan (Danvers, Mass.), Erik Kroeker (Danvers, Mass.) and Rui Wang (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for creating and using a neural network model to estimate a cardiac parameter of a patient, and using the estimated parameter in providing blood pump support to improve patient cardiac performance and heart health. Particular adaptations include adjusting blood pump parameters and det...