US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Nov. 18 for "Interface between heart pump controller database and hospital" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,002, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Interface between heart pump controller database and hospital" was invented by Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.) and Dawn Bardot (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic interface facilitates automatically transferring data from a heart pump controller database to an EMR system, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for caregivers to manually transcribe heart pump operational data from a heart pump controller screen to the EMR system. Some embodiments reduce or eliminate the need to periodically visit a patient to record the operational dat...