ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,163, issued on June 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Circulatory support device" was invented by Lloyd Radman (Blaine, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circulatory support device includes a flexible cannula having a fluid outlet at a proximal end, and a pump assembly disposed at a distal end of the flexible cannula. The pump assembly includes a pump housing having a fluid inlet defined therein, a motor disposed within a distal end of the housing, and an impeller, driven to rotate by the motor, and configured to push blood toward the fluid outlet. A method of deploying the device to a subj...