US Patent Issued to Kardion on Aug. 11 for "Implantable device for determining a fluid volume flow through a blood vessel" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,821, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Kardion GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Implantable device for determining a fluid volume flow through a blood vessel" was invented by Inga Schellenberg (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany) and Tobias Schmid (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an implantable device (1) for determining a fluid volume flow (2) through a blood vessel (3), comprising: -at least one sensor (4) for recording at least one flow parameter, -a retaining means (5) for retaining a vessel wall port (6) in the region of a vessel wall (7) of the blood vesse...