ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,251, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to ABIOMED EUROPE GMBH (Aachen, Germany).
"Blood pump" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Jimpo Wang (Danvers, Mass.) and Gerd Spanier (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular blood pump comprises a pump casing having a blood flow inlet and a blood flow outlet, and an impeller arranged in said pump casing so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein the impeller has blades sized and shaped for conveying blood from the blood flow inlet to the blood flow outlet. The blood pump further comprises a drive unit for rotating the impeller, the drive unit ...