US Patent Issued to Tufts Medical Center, Abiomed on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for left ventricular unloading in treating myocardial infarction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,553, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Tufts Medical Center Inc. (Boston) and Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for left ventricular unloading in treating myocardial infarction" was invented by Navin K. Kapur (Boston), Richard H. Karas (Franklin, Mass.) and Noam Josephy (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We provide herein a method of preventing or limiting the effects of heart failure in a human patient that has sustained myocardial infarction by reducing maladaptive cardiac remodeling in the patient. The method comprises percutaneously inserting a transvalvular blood pump, comprising a rotor and a cann...