ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,076, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Abiomed Inc. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Intravascular blood pump with outflow hose" was invented by Gerd Spanier (Aachen, Germany), Zhongwei Qi (Andover, Mass.), Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany) and Frank Kirchhoff (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular blood pump includes a pump housing having an input port and an output port. A relatively short intake cannula may draw blood in through an intake port and deliver the blood to the input port of the pump housing. The intake cannula is relatively short, to prevent excess hydraulic loss. An outflow hose is connected to the outpu...