US Patent Issued to Medtronic Vascular on July 29 for "Systems and methods for oxygenator performance evaluation" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,294, issued on July 29, was assigned to Medtronic Vascular Inc. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for oxygenator performance evaluation" was invented by Brian Steffens (Maple Grove, Minn.), James Beavers (Houston), John Knoll (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Todd Romine (Big Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring oxygenator performance in extracorporeal circuit systems or the like. More particularly, the disclosure relates to systems and methods including a controller programmed to determine oxygenator apparatus flow impedance as a function of an inlet pressure measurement, an outlet pressure...