ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,546, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Blood pump" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Wolfgang Kerkhoffs (Aachen, Germany), Peter Skrodsky (Aachen, Germany), Jimpo Wang (Aachen, Germany) and Marius Grauwinkel (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a pump casing (2) having a blood flow inlet (21) and a blood flow outlet (22), and an impeller (3) arranged in said pump casing (2) so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation, wherein the impeller (3) has blades (31) sized and shaped for conveying blood from the blood flow inlet (...