US Patent Issued to Shifamed Holdings on Oct. 14 for "Power management for interatrial shunts and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,656, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Shifamed Holdings LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Power management for interatrial shunts and associated systems and methods" was invented by Peter Andriola (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Brian Fahey (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to power management for interatrial shunting systems. In some embodiments, the present technology includes a system for shunting blood between a left atrium and a right atrium of a patient. The system can include a shunting element and a plurality of active electronic components operably coupled to the shunting element. At leas...