US Patent Issued to FUWAI HOSPITAL OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES on March 25 for "Intra-aortic dual balloon driving pump catheter device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,407, issued on March 25, was assigned to FUWAI HOSPITAL OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Intra-aortic dual balloon driving pump catheter device" was invented by Tao Yang (Beijing) and Yuejin Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-aortic dual balloon driving pump catheter device is disclosed, including a controlling part adapted to control air pumps to inflate and deflate a first balloon and a second balloon according to a cardiac cycle and an arterial pressure of the catheter end monitored by a monitoring part, such that in diastole the first balloon inflates while the second balloon deflates, and in...