US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 13 for "Method for pump start in a fully implanted LVAD system when multiple power sources may be present" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,159, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method for pump start in a fully implanted LVAD system when multiple power sources may be present" was invented by Eric A. Schilling (Ham Lake, Minn.), Joel B. Artmann (Elk River, Minn.), Jason C. Lee (Edina, Minn.) and David I. Siegfried (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling operation of an implantable blood pump includes attempting to restart a stopped implantable blood pump for a predetermined number of attempts with either power from an internal battery of a controller in communication with the implantable bl...