US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 8 for "Method to extract and quantify the cardiac end diastolic point/mitral valve closing point from the HVAD estimated flow waveform" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,862, issued on April 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method to extract and quantify the cardiac end diastolic point/mitral valve closing point from the HVAD estimated flow waveform" was invented by Carlos Reyes (Davie, Fla.) and Neethu Lekshmi Vasudevan Jalaja (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control circuit for a sensorless implantable blood pump configured to determine mitral valve regurgitation includes processing circuitry configured to generate an estimated blood flow waveform from the sensorless implanted blood pump and generate an alert if between an end period of diastole and a b...