US Patent Issued to Cardiovascular Systems on May 13 for "Intravascular blood pump and hemodynamic support system with blood flow pulsatility validity monitoring and invalidity detection with alarm" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,158, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Intravascular blood pump and hemodynamic support system with blood flow pulsatility validity monitoring and invalidity detection with alarm" was invented by Joseph P. Higgins (Minnetonka, Minn.), Benjamin D. Haselman (Dayton, Minn.), Gregory B. Ingersoll (Minneapolis), Matthew W. Tilstra (Rogers, Minn.), Brian P. Schmalz (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Kayla J. Eichers-Lundberg (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device with an implantable blood pump and a control and sensing unit configured to determine the flow rate generated by the blo...