US Patent Issued to TC1 on Sept. 15 for "Extracorporeal blood pump assembly and methods of assembling same" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,350, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TC1 LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Extracorporeal blood pump assembly and methods of assembling same" was invented by John Freddy Hansen (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal blood pump assembly includes a blood pump and an extracorporeal membrane oxygenator (ECMO). The blood pump includes a pump housing, a rotor, and a flow converter positioned downstream from the rotor to convert non-axial flow from the rotor to axial flow. The pump housing defines an inlet and an outlet. The ECMO includes a membrane housing and an oxygenator membrane disposed within the membrane hous...