US Patent Issued to TC1 on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for blood pump connectors" (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,414, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TC1 LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for blood pump connectors" was invented by Dustin Roelle (Mountain House, Calif.), Dmitry Protsenko (Vallejo, Calif.), Mark Di Paola (Livermore, Calif.), Kathryn Smith-Petersen (Carlisle, Mass.) and Emma DiasAbeygunawardena (Falcon Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for connections in a medical device system are provided. A connector system includes a connector receptacle including first electrical contacts, a connector insert including second electrical contacts and at least one pin, and a locking member rotatably cou...