ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,790, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SHENZHEN CORE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Ventricular assist device" was invented by Shunzhou Yu (Shenzhen, China), Jun Huang (Shenzhen, China), Cihua Luo (Shenzhen, China) and Linglin Kong (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventricular assist device includes a housing assembly with a pressurized inner chamber, an impeller, an electric motor and a distance sensor. The electric motor includes a controller, a stator and a rotor. The stator and the controller are located in the housing assembly, outside of the pressurized inner chamber and are electrically coupled....