US Patent Issued to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH on March 31 for "Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a fluid pump" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,589, issued on March 31, was assigned to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Radially compressible and expandable rotor for a fluid pump" was invented by Daniel Roehn (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a rotor for a fluid pump which is made radially compressible and expandable and has a hub and at least one conveying element which has a plurality of struts and at least one membrane which can be spanned between them, provision is made for a design in accordance with the invention which is as simple and inexpensive as possible that at least one first group of struts is pivotable in a pivot plane, start...