US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 2 for "Early warning of LVAD thrombus formation" (Minnesota, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,612, issued on June 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Early warning of LVAD thrombus formation" was invented by Abhijit Kadrolkar (Minneapolis), Robert W. Stadler (Shoreview, Minn.) and Michael C. Brown (Dresher, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an adverse event within a patient having an implantable blood pump including calculating a plurality of power consumption trends of the blood pump during a plurality of time periods using a low-pass filter, determining a plurality of power trend differences between the plurality of power consumption trends, calculating a total amo...