ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,311, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ABIOMED INC. (Danvers, Mass.).
"Motor cables for intravascular blood pumps" was invented by Emilia Jahangir (Danvers, Mass.), Qingchao Kong (Danvers, Mass.) and Martin Kortyka (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing hemodynamic support to a patient with an intravascular blood pump are disclosed. In some implementations, the blood pump includes a motor and an improved motor cable for delivering electrical power to the motor. The motor includes a stator with one or more coils. The motor cable includes one or more electrical conduits. The motor cable also...