ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,529, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Crimp tool for compressible catheter pump" was invented by Christopher Zarins (Danvers, Mass.), Joerg Schumacher (Aachen, Germany), Ralph D'Ambrosio (Danvers, Mass.), Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Maxim Daschewski (Aachen, Germany), Markus Birkhof (Aachen, Germany) and Daniel Roehn (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimp tool facilitates crimping a resiliently radially compressible human-implantable catheter pump, and transferring the crimped pump into a tubular transfer sheath, by pulling the heart pump through an elongated tube that defines ...