ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,033, issued on March 25, was assigned to Pulsion Medical Systems SE (Feldkirchen, Germany).

"System, computer system and computer program for determining a cardiovascular parameter" was invented by Wolfgang Huber (Gmund, Germany), Mark Konrad (Munich) and Sergej Kammerzell (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system interacts with an apparatus for extracorporeal blood treatment, which is connected to the venous vascular system of a patient via an inflow line and an outflow line. Temperature influencing means for causing an initial local temperature deviation T1 in the vicinity of a first point of the vascular system, as a resu...