ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,986, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to QUEST MEDICAL INC. (Allen, Texas).
"Myocardial protection system" was invented by Ken Jones (McKinney, Texas), Jeff Albertsen (McKinney, Texas), Cristo Corera (McKinney, Texas) and Lee Carter (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a cardioplegia delivery system having a console, controller, and disposables. The console, in conjunction with the disposables, combines blood from the heart-lung machine and crystalloid from the IV-bag in a specified ratio and then adds in a drug (arrest agent and/or additive). The electro-mechanical console incorporates a blood/crystall...