ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,091, issued on May 27, was assigned to LivaNova Deutschland GmbH (Munich).
"Device for automatically establishing the venous inflow to a blood reservoir of an extracorporeal blood circulation system" was invented by Ottmar Penka (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for establishing venous inflow to a blood reservoir of an extracorporeal blood circulation system includes a restricting unit for restricting a venous inflow line and a vacuum unit for supplying vacuum to the blood reservoir. The device includes a control unit that, upon setting the desired venous flow rate, automatically supplies a first actuating signal to the...