US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on June 30 for "Methods for providing ventricular support for a human patient" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,712, issued on June 30, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Methods for providing ventricular support for a human patient" was invented by Gerd Bruno Spanier (Aachen, Germany), Joerg Schumacher (Aachen, Germany), Christopher Zarins (Danvers, Mass.), Ralph Louis D'Ambrosio (Danvers, Mass.), Samantha Polak (Danvers, Mass.), Yonghong Gao (Danvers, Mass.), Mariah Hout (Danvers, Mass.), John Kenneth Ryder (Danvers, Mass.), Noam Josephy (Danvers, Mass.) and David Weber (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing ventricular support for a human patient during a high-risk percutaneous coronary interventio...