US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on June 17 for "Systems and methods for determining positioning of intracardiac devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,959, issued on June 17, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for determining positioning of intracardiac devices" was invented by Ali Hassan Almedhychy (Danvers, Mass.) and Anjan K. Chakrabarti (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining the positioning of intracardiac devices, such as intracardiac blood pump assemblies, using electrical sensors configured to sense electrical potential as it propagates through the heart. In one example, the present technology provides an intracardiac device with one or more electrical sensors mounted thereon, and a controller confi...