US Patent Issued to FCP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH on May 19 for "Medical product comprising a functional element for the invasive use in a patient's body" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,507, issued on May 19, was assigned to FCP Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Medical product comprising a functional element for the invasive use in a patient's body" was invented by Markus Ferrari (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Joerg Schumacher (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "So as to be able to determine the position of a functional element as precisely as possible during the invasive use of a blood pump in a patient's body without the use of imaging methods, the blood pump is connected to a main sensor which records signals of the patient's heart, which are compared to other electrophysiological heart signa...