US Patent Issued to FBR Medical on Feb. 17 for "Partially-deformable impeller and catheter blood pump incorporating same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,685, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FBR Medical Inc. (El Dorado Hills, Calif.).

"Partially-deformable impeller and catheter blood pump incorporating same" was invented by Peter G. Piferi (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partially deformable impeller has at least two blades, wherein a periphery of each blade is deformable, the periphery being an outermost 5 to 20 percent of a width of the blade. In some embodiments, a catheter blood pump incorporates the partially deformable impeller."

The patent was filed on July 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/858,615.

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