US Patent Issued to Berlin Heart on March 18 for "Rotary blood pump for regulating a hemodynamic parameter successively to different target values" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,549, issued on March 18, was assigned to Berlin Heart GmbH (Berlin).

"Rotary blood pump for regulating a hemodynamic parameter successively to different target values" was invented by Marcus Granegger (Perchtoldsdorf, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump for supporting the heart may be provided that includes: a rotor with delivery elements; a rotor drive; a pressure sensor; and a regulating device that regulates a pressure or a hemodynamic parameter by means of control of the rotor drive. The pressure and/or the hemodynamic parameter may be determined by means of one or a plurality of hemodynamic sensors and/or from o...