US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on March 18 for "Systems and methods for predicting patient health status" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,551, issued on March 18, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for predicting patient health status" was invented by Chen Liu (Danvers, Mass.), Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.) and Scott Corbett (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for treating a patient in cardiogenic shock. An intravascular heart pump system is inserted into vasculature of the patient. The heart pump system has a cannula, pump outlet, pump inlet, and rotor. The heart pump system is positioned within the patient such that the cannula extends across the patient's aortic valve, the pump ...