ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,816, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Implantable cardiac support system" was invented by Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany) and Michael Curcic (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an implantable, vascular support system (10) having a cannula (13) and an ultrasound measuring device (18), wherein the cannula (13) and the ultrasound measuring device (18) are disposed in the region of mutually opposite ends of the support system (10)."
The patent was filed on Aug. 7, 2019, under Application No. 17/266,068.
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