ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,718, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LivaNova Deutschland GmbH (Munich).
"Regulating blood flow in extracorporeal circulation" was invented by Ottmar Penka (Munich) and Friedemann Schubert (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for regulating blood flow in extracorporeal circulation, and including a blood reservoir to receive blood from a patient, an oxygenator to condition the blood, a centrifugal pump to pump the blood from the blood reservoir to the oxygenator and back to the patient, an electronic remote clamp to regulate flow of the blood, and a controller to operate in a flow control mode and a speed control mode. T...