US Patent Issued to CHARITE-UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN on July 28 for "Blood pump" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,276, issued on July 28, was assigned to CHARITE-UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN (Berlin).

"Blood pump" was invented by Marcus Granegger (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria), Tim Bierewirtz (Berlin), Marcel Nicolai (Berlin) and Ulrich Kertzscher (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure refers to a blood pump as defined in claim 1 comprising: -a pump housing with a cylindrical piston chamber; -an axially and rotatably slidable free floating piston centrally positioned within the cylindrical piston chamber thereby dividing the cylindrical piston chamber into a left chamber and a right chamber, wherein the left chamber and right ch...