US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 1 for "Dampening element for fluid management system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,292, issued on April 1, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Dampening element for fluid management system" was invented by Michael S. H. Chu (Brookline, Mass.), Mayur kiran Patel (Framingham, Mass.) and Sacha Tang (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid management system may include a fluid pump capable of generating a pulsatile flow of fluid, a fluid pathway for transporting the pulsatile flow of fluid from a fluid source through the fluid pump to a medical device, a dampening element in fluid communication with the fluid pathway and operably independent of the fluid pump, the dampening...