ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,614, issued on July 14, was assigned to Berlin Heart Gmbh (Berlin).
"Implantable blood pump for assisting a heart function" was invented by Oliver Peters (Berlin), Adrian Wisniewski (Berlin) and Hendryk Richert (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an implantable blood pump for assisting a heart function. The blood pump comprises a heat source and a wall that delimits a flow cannel. In addition, the blood pump comprises a heat distributor for distributing heat generated by the heat source to a surface of the wall. In order to transfer heat from the heat source to the blood conveyed in the flow chan...