US Patent Issued to NOVAFLOW on Nov. 25 for "Bidirectional arterial cannula for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and method for using such a cannula" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,722, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NOVAFLOW (Vaucresson, France).

"Bidirectional arterial cannula for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and method for using such a cannula" was invented by Jean-Paul Couetil (Vaucresson, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arterial cannula for ECMO includes a main arterial cannula with an inner wall and having a first end with a blood outflow port. The first end is intended to be introduced into an artery so as to inject the blood retrogradely into the artery. A retro-perfusion cannula is configured to be translatably movable between a retracted position in the first end of the main arteri...