US Patent Issued to Abiomed on March 31 for "Use of optical fiber sensor as a diagnostic tool in catheter-based medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,239, issued on March 31, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Use of optical fiber sensor as a diagnostic tool in catheter-based medical devices" was invented by Rahul Suresh Gandhi (Danvers, Mass.) and Tao Zhang (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump system including an optical sensor configured to detect an optical signal during pumping operation of the blood pump, and an optical fiber configured to transmit the optical signal from the optical fiber sensor to an evaluation device communicatively coupled to the optical fiber sensor. The evaluation device is configured to receive as inputs the transmi...