US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 9 for "Thermal stimulation and subsequent cooling for fully implantable LVAD controller" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,313, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Thermal stimulation and subsequent cooling for fully implantable LVAD controller" was invented by Michael D. Eggen (Chicago City, Minn.), Yong K. Cho (Excelsior, Minn.), Avram Scheiner (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Ramesh Raghupathy (New Brighton, Minn.) and Thomas W. Radtke (Ramsey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of cooling a mammal with an implantable blood pump. The method includes measuring a temperature of an internal controller, the internal controller being in communication with the implantable blood pump. an alert is gener...