US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Nov. 3 for "Reduced thrombosis blood pump" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,205, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Reduced thrombosis blood pump" was invented by Benjamin Breidall (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Daniel H. VanCamp (Elk River, Minn.) and Travis J. Schauer (Rockford, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly is configured to retain a distal end of an impeller of a blood pump, where the impeller includes a drive shaft. The bearing assembly includes a pivot member coupled to a distal end of the drive shaft; a distal bearing cup having a proximally-facing surface configured to engage at least a portion of a distal section of the pivot member...