US Patent Issued to Supira Medical on June 23 for "Intravascular blood pump systems and methods of use and control thereof" (American, Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,495, issued on June 23, was assigned to Supira Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Intravascular blood pump systems and methods of use and control thereof" was invented by Joshua Wallin (San Jose, Calif.), Adnan Merchant (Fremont, Calif.), Gerald Lyons (Saratoga, Calif.), Bertold Engler (Munich), Tom Peach (Milan), Andrea Besana (Campbell, Calif.) and James Luther (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intravascular blood pumps and methods of use. The blood pump include a pump portion that includes a collapsible blood conduit defining a blood flow lumen between an inflow and an outflow. The pump portion includes a distal collapsi...