US Patent Issued to ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH on Oct. 27 for "System for introducing a pump" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,529, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ECP ENTWICKLUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH (Aachen, Germany).

"System for introducing a pump" was invented by Thomas Toellner (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention resides in the field of introducing fluid pumps into a lumen and relates to a system for introducing a pump into a lumen which comprises a first sheath and a pump to be introduced into the first sheath, or a system which has a pump with a distal pump unit and a shaft catheter which emerges proximally to the pump unit. According to the invention one or two sheaths are used, the distal pump unit being pulled firstly into the dista...