US Patent Issued to Wake Forest University Health Sciences on March 3 for "Double lumen aortic cannula and cross clamp assembly and related methods" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,409, issued on March 3, was assigned to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Double lumen aortic cannula and cross clamp assembly and related methods" was invented by Luiz Maracaja (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cardiothoracic surgical devices with a dual lumen cannula (8) that cooperates with a clamping assembly (35) for facilitating a CPB. The dual lumen cannula (8) has a distal end portion (8d) configured to reside inside an aorta (A) of a patient. The distal end portion (8d) has a first lumen (9) and a second lumen (10) in fluid isolation. The first lumen (9) has a lumen orifice (13)...