ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,550, issued on March 18, was assigned to CorWave SA (Clichy, France).
"Blood pumps having an encapsulated actuator" was invented by Pierre-Yves Quelenn (Asniere-sur-Seine, France), Carl N. Botterbusch (Wyomissing, Pa.), Trevor Snyder (La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France), Francois Cornat (Paris), Francesca Condemi (Levallois-Perret, France), Petrus Le Blanc (Rancho Cordova, Calif.) and Antoine Olive (Asnieres sur Seine, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating blood flow with a blood pump including a membrane and an encapsulated actuator are described. The pump may be implantable and may include a stator ass...