ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,714, issued on June 30, was assigned to KARDION GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Line device for conducting a blood flow for a heart support system, and production and assembly method" was invented by Ingo Stotz (Ditzingen, Germany), Hardy Baumbach (Stuttgart, Germany), Inga Schellenberg (Stuttgart, Germany) and David Minzenmay (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a line device (105) for conducting a blood flow for a heart support system. The line device (105) has a main part (205), and the main part (205) has a first attachment section (210) at a first end for attaching the line device (105) to a he...