ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,307, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Blood pump blood compatibility device" was invented by Jerald Curran (Danvers, Mass.), Jin Kwang Kim (Danvers, Mass.), Jeremy Moretz (Danvers, Mass.) and Claudia Mourran (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and method are disclosed involving a pump control module configured to control an intravascular blood pump and display information about the intravascular blood pump, and a blood monitoring module configured to derive a value of a blood parameter from information received about a blood sample, such as information received from a blood monito...