US Patent Issued to CARDIODYME on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for pump-assisted blood circulation" (New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,254, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CARDIODYME INC. (New York).

"Systems and methods for pump-assisted blood circulation" was invented by Gopal K. Chopra (New York) and William Graham (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for assisting a circulation of blood inside a body of a patient includes a pump including: a housing having an upstream portion and a downstream portion; an inducer positioned in the upstream portion of the housing, the inducer including one or more helically-wound inducer blades to rotate around a longitudinal axis of the pump; an impeller positioned downstream of the inducer in the housing, the impe...