US Patent Issued to Kardion on May 27 for "Method and system for determining the speed of sound in a fluid in the region of a cardiac support system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,160, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for determining the speed of sound in a fluid in the region of a cardiac support system" was invented by Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany) and Tobias Schmid (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the speed of sound in a fluid in the region of an implanted, vascular support system includes sending an ultrasonic signal using an ultrasonic sensor, reflecting the ultrasonic signal on at least one sound reflector, receiving the reflected ultrasonic signal, and determining the speed of sound in th...