ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,056, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Abiomed Europe GmbH (Aachen, Germany).
"Intravascular blood pump with balloon" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany), Christoph Nix (Aachen, Germany) and Walid Aboulhosn (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular blood pump (1) comprises a ring seal (10) that is configured to assume a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration and configured to contact and seal against an inner wall of the patient's blood vessel when inserted therein in the expanded configuration. A support member (12; 13) is disposed inside the ring seal (10) in order to support th...