ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,854, issued on July 22, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Intravascular blood pump having multilayer coreless coils" was invented by Jimpo Wang (Danvers, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an intravascular blood pump for insertion into a patient's heart. The blood pump comprises a slotless permanent magnet motor contained within a housing, the motor having p magnet pole pairs and n phases, where p is an integer greater than zero, and n is an integer less than=3. The motor comprises a stator extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing and having 2np coils wound to form two coils per phase per m...