ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,024, issued on June 9, was assigned to LivaNova Deutschland GmbH (Munich).
"Dynamic control of subordinate pumps in a heart-lung-machine" was invented by Ottmar Penka (Munich) and Friedemann Schubert (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for controlling one or more pumps of a heart-lung-machine. An illustrative method may comprise receiving an actual flow rate of a pump, determining the actual flow rate is from a primary pump, determining an available amount of the actual flow rate of the primary pump that is available to one or more subordinate pumps, comparing the available amount of the actual flow rate of the ...