US Patent Issued to Kardion on Nov. 25 for "Cardiac assist system, and method for monitoring the integrity of a retaining structure of a cardiac assist system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,775, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Cardiac assist system, and method for monitoring the integrity of a retaining structure of a cardiac assist system" was invented by Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany), Ricardo Ehrenpfordt (Korntal-Munchingen, Germany) and Ahmad Mansour (Weil der Stadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cardiac support system (20) is equipped with a retaining structure (30) for the cardiac support system, said retaining structure (30) being intended to fix the cardiac support system in place. The cardiac support system comprises a device for monitoring the...