US Patent Issued to Kardion on May 27 for "Systems and methods for determining a flow speed of a fluid flowing through a cardiac assist device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,708, issued on May 27, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Systems and methods for determining a flow speed of a fluid flowing through a cardiac assist device" 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: "The invention relates to a method for determining at least a flow velocity or a fluid volume flow (5) of a fluid flowing through an implanted vascular support system (1), comprising the following steps: a) carrying out a pulsed Doppler measurement by means of an ultrasonic sensor (2) of the support system (1), b) evaluating a mea...