ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,267, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Kardion GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Sensor head device for a minimal invasive ventricular assist device and method for producing such a sensor head device" was invented by Thomas Alexander Schlebusch (Renningen, Germany) and Julian Kassel (Boblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensor head device for a heart support system, wherein the sensor head device has at least one sensor carrying element, wherein the sensor carrying element has at least one sensor cavity for accommodating at least one sensor and/or at least one signal transmitter cavity for accommoda...