US Patent Issued to ABIOMED on Oct. 7 for "Blood pump with capability of electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring, defibrillation and pacing" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,060, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ABIOMED Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).

"Blood pump with capability of electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring, defibrillation and pacing" was invented by Qing Tan (Danvers, Mass.) and Ahmad El Katerji (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump system includes a catheter, a pump housing disposed distal of a distal end of the catheter, a rotor positioned at least partially in the pump housing, a controller, and an electrode coupled a distal region of the blood pump. The electrode can be used to sense electrocardiogram (EKG) signals and transmit the signals to a controller of the blood pump. The...