US Patent Issued to CorWave on Feb. 17 for "Apparatus and methods for coupling a blood pump to the heart" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,689, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CorWave SA (Clichy, France).

"Apparatus and methods for coupling a blood pump to the heart" was invented by Amelie Bourquin (Paris), Antoine Rabardel (Paris), Antoine Rudelle (Versalles, France) and Pierre-Yves Quelenn (Asnieres-sur-Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for coupling a blood pump to a patients heart is provided. The apparatus includes a sewing ring designed to be sutured to the patients heart, wherein the sewing ring has an opening sized and shaped to receive an inflow cannula of the blood pump. The apparatus further includes a locking element coupled to a ho...