US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 3 for "Percutaneous circulatory support device with expandable element" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,200, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Percutaneous circulatory support device with expandable element" was invented by Brian Reynolds (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A percutaneous circulatory support device includes a housing, an impeller disposed within the housing and being rotatable relative to the housing, a cannula coupled to the housing, the cannula extending between a proximal portion and a distal portion of the cannula positioned opposite the proximal end, an expandable element arranged near the distal portion of the cannula, the expandable element capable of...