ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,164, issued on June 24, was assigned to HeartWare Inc. (Miami Lakes, Fla.).
"HVAD flow pulsatility tracker" was invented by Veronica Ramos (Homestead, Fla.), Neethu Lekshmi Vasudevan Jalaja (Miami) and Michael Brown (Dresher, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of predicting an adverse event in a patient having an implantable blood pump including correlating a pulsatility value to a flow trough value associated with the blood pump to determine a flow peak value; dividing the determined flow peak value by a pump current to determine a pulsatility peak value; tracking a first moving average of the pulsatility peak value, the fi...