US Patent Issued to Kardion on June 10 for "Systems and methods for determining a total blood volume flow in a cardiac support system and vascular support system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,906, issued on June 10, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Systems and methods for determining a total blood volume flow in a cardiac support system and vascular support system" was invented by Hardy Baumbach (Stuttgart, Germany), Karin Schneider (Herrenberg, 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 total fluid volume flow (1) in the region of an implanted vascular support system (2), comprising the following steps: a) determining a referenc...