ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,958, issued on June 17, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Blood pump" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Walid Aboulhosn (Aachen, Germany), Wolfgang Kerkhoffs (Aachen, Germany), Ellen Keysselitz (Aachen, Germany) and Peter Skrodsky (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump comprises a pump casing having a blood flow inlet and a blood flow outlet, and an impeller arranged in said pump casing and rotatably supported in the pump casing by a bearing so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. The impeller has blades for conveying blood from the blood flow inlet to the blood flo...