US Patent Issued to CardiacAssist on Oct. 6 for "Oxygenator with improved blood mixing" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,044, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CardiacAssist Inc..

"Oxygenator with improved blood mixing" was invented by Kelli Kelleher (Glenshaw, Pa.), Ruben Hartogs (Pittsburgh), Luke Simpson (Pittsburgh) and Robert Svitek (Freeport, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oxygenator may include a housing extending from a first end to a second end along a central longitudinal axis, a first end cap, a second end cap, and a bundle of hollow gas exchange fibers extending between the first end and the second end. The first end cap and the second end cap may each be rotatable about the central longitudinal axis. An oxygenator may include a bundl...