US Patent Issued to Abiomed on June 23 for "Adaptive flow calculation for a mechanical circulatory support device" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,498, issued on June 23, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Adaptive flow calculation for a mechanical circulatory support device" was invented by Mohammed Alwatban (Danvers, Mass.), Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.), Maxim Daschewski (Berlin), Gerd Spanier (Aachen, Germany), Andre Chuev (Aachen, Germany), Qing Tan (Danvers, Mass.) and Samuel Brown (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for determining flow through a circulatory support device are provided. The method comprises receiving a motor current signal from a motor of the circulatory support device, determining within a time window of...