ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,556, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MAGENTA MEDICAL LTD (Kadima, Israel).
"Blood pump housing" was invented by Yosi Tuval (Even Yehuda, Israel), Gad Lubinsky (Ein Vered, Israel), Hagit Zemer Harel (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ori Friedland (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Rosenblum (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Avi Rozenfeld (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described for manufacturing a housing for an impeller of a blood pump. A mandrel is placed inside an inner lining, with a central cylindrical portion of a frame disposed around the inner lining, the mandrel being shorter than a length of the inner linin...