US Patent Issued to ABIOMED, Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nov. 25 for "Cardiovascular assist system that quantifies heart function and facilitates heart recovery" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,266, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Cardiovascular assist system that quantifies heart function and facilitates heart recovery" was invented by Elazer Edelman (Cambridge, Mass.), Brian Chang (Cambridge, Mass.), Noam Josephy (Danvers, Mass.) and Sonya Sanat Bhavsar (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, devices, and methods presented herein use a heart pump to obtain measurements of cardiovascular function. The heart pumps described herein can operate in parallel with and unload the heart. The system can quantify the f...