US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on March 4 for "Blood pump housing component" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,480, issued on March 4, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Blood pump housing component" was invented by Scott C. Corbett (Danvers, Mass.), Zhongwei Qi (Danvers, Mass.) and Kar Lee (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Blood pump assemblies and methods of manufacturing and operating blood pump assemblies are provided. The blood pump assembly includes a pump and an impeller blade rotatably coupled to the pump. The blood pump assembly also includes a pump housing component sized for passage through a body lumen and coupled to the pump. The pump housing component includes a peripheral wall extending about a rotatio...