US Patent Issued to Abiomed Europe on July 1 for "Pump including a compressible rotor having offset rotor blades" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,519, issued on July 1, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).

"Pump including a compressible rotor having offset rotor blades" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Gerd Bruno Spanier (Aachen, Germany) and Tino Andreas Boelke (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present technology relate to compressible and expandable pumps. In one aspect, a pump is provided including a pump housing that is expandable and compressible and a rotor that is expandable and compressible and disposed in the pump housing. The rotor includes at least one rotor blade, a hub, and an axis of rotation. At leas...