US Patent Issued to ABIOMED, Northeastern University on Oct. 21 for "Intra-aortic pressure forecasting" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,230, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.) and Northeastern University (Boston).

"Intra-aortic pressure forecasting" was invented by Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.), Erik Kroeker (Danvers, Mass.), Elise Jortberg (Danvers, Mass.), Rose Yu (Boston) and Rui Wang (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for predicting an intra-aortic pressure of a patient receiving hemodynamic support from a transvalvular micro-axial heart pump. In some implementations, an intra-aortic pressure time series is derived from measurements of a pressure sensor of the tra...