ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,462, issued on May 19, was assigned to Transonic Systems Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Calculating cardiac output of a patient undergoing veno-venous extracorporeal blood oxygenation" was invented by Nikolai M. Krivitski (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Gregory Galyanov (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for calculating cardiac output of a patient on an extracorporeal blood oxygenation circuit, such as veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, includes determining (i) a first arterial carbon dioxide content or surrogate and (ii) a first carbon dioxide content or surrogate in the blood delivered to the patient after passing the oxy...