US Patent Issued to OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF on Nov. 11 for "Monitoring of a cardiac assist device" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,747, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OSLO UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS HF (Oslo, Norway).

"Monitoring of a cardiac assist device" was invented by Per Steinar Halvorsen (Oslo, Norway), Andreas Espinoza (Hovik, Norway) and Erik Fosse (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a cardiac assist device includes a sensor implantable in the body at the heart or at an implanted pump of the cardiac assist device, the sensor being for detecting motion of the pump within the body and hence being for monitoring movement of the pump, where the control system is arranged to, in use: receive signals from the sensor, the signals pro...