US Patent Issued to Abiomed on June 16 for "Portable ventricular assist system with a multi-channel optical pressure sensor" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,999, issued on June 16, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Portable ventricular assist system with a multi-channel optical pressure sensor" was invented by Andrew Gentile (Danvers, Mass.), Claude Belleville (Danvers, Mass.) and Wolfgang Kerkhoffs (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable ventricular assist system may comprise a heart pump and at least one hardware controller. The heart pump may comprise a rotor, a motor configured to drive rotation of the rotor at one or more speeds, a first optical pressure sensor configured to detect a first pressure signal, and a second optical pressure sensor configur...