US Patent Issued to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh on Nov. 25 for "Rotor for a fluid pump and method and mold for the production thereof" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,512, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ECP Entwicklungsgesellschaft Mbh (Aachen, Germany).

"Rotor for a fluid pump and method and mold for the production thereof" was invented by Thorsten Siess (Aachen, Germany) and Mario Scheckel (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rotor for a compressible fluid pump, in particular a blood pump that can be introduced through a blood vessel into a patient's body, wherein said rotor comprises one or more conveying elements (15), is compressible and expandable between a first compressed state and a second radially expanded state, is made at least partially from a plastic ...