US Patent Issued to Supira Medical on July 14 for "Intravascular blood pumps and pumps with expandable scaffolds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,612, issued on July 14, was assigned to Supira Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Intravascular blood pumps and pumps with expandable scaffolds" was invented by Michael Calomeni (San Jose, Calif.), Brian D. Brandt (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Ari Ryan (San Jose, Calif.), Reza Shirazi (San Jose, Calif.), Gregory Michael Hamel (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel Hildebrand (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Spencer Noe (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter blood pumps that include an expandable pump portion. The pump portions include a collapsible blood conduit that defines a blood lumen. The collapsible blood conduits include a colla...