US Patent Issued to ANHUI TONGLING BIONICS TECHNOLOGY on July 8 for "Impeller and ventricular assist device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,482, issued on July 8, was assigned to ANHUI TONGLING BIONICS TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hefei, China).

"Impeller and ventricular assist device" was invented by Zhengkai Xie (Hefei, China), Zheng Gong (Hefei, China) and Huan Liu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impeller and a ventricular assist device are provided. The impeller comprises a hub and at least one blade fixed on an outer periphery of the hub; the hub comprises an inlet end and an outlet end; the blade comprises an action surface, an contour line of the action surface comprises an outer edge profile line away from the hub, an endpoint of the outer edge profile lin...