US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE on Dec. 23 for "Electrocardiogramagered piston pump" (Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,523, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE (Lafayette, La.).

"Electrocardiogramagered piston pump" was invented by Charles Taylor (Lafayette, La.) and Jacob King (Carencro, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positive displacement pump that triggers with the beating of a mammalian heart, through the monitoring of an ECG signal is disclosed. A programmable delay from the detection of the forthcoming contraction of the heart enables the pump to syncopate the ejection of the fluid with the events occurring in the cardiovascular system. This delayed ejection could be used to overlay the ejected fluid fr...