US Patent Issued to KARDION on Dec. 9 for "Systems and methods for determining a blood volume flow through a cardiac support system and vascular support system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,357, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KARDION GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Systems and methods for determining a blood volume flow through a cardiac support system and vascular support system" was invented by Hardy Baumbach (Stuttgart, Germany), Julian Kassel (Boblingen, Germany), Inga Schellenberg (Stuttgart, Germany), Martina Budde (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a fluid volume flow (1) through an implanted vascular support system (2), comprising the following steps: a) determining a fluid temperature parameter i...