ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,603, issued on June 3, was assigned to Scandinavian Real Heart AB (Vasteras, Sweden).
"Blood pumping device" was invented by Azad Najar (Vasteras, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pumping device is described having at least a first pump and a first pump actuator for inducing a blood flow in a body's circulatory system. The pump has one upper chamber having an inlet channel and one lower chamber having an outlet channel. The upper and lower chambers are separated by a movable valve plane provided with a one-way valve. The pump actuator induces movement of the valve plane in an upward and downward direction between the uppe...