US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 8 for "Blood pump control using motor voltage measurement" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,254, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Blood pump control using motor voltage measurement" was invented by Marit Elisabeth Woulfe (Ramsey, Minn.), Qian Liu (Plymouth, Minn.), John O'Donnell (Tipperary, Ireland) and Ronald Gunnels (Rogersville, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A percutaneous circulatory support device includes an impeller, a motor configured to rotate the impeller to cause blood to flow through the percutaneous circulatory support device, and a controller operably coupled to the motor. The controller is configured to determine a vascular pressure within a patient...