US Patent Issued to SHIFAMED HOLDINGS on Sept. 9 for "Descending aorta and vena cava blood pumps" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,310, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SHIFAMED HOLDINGS LLC (Campbell, Calif.).

"Descending aorta and vena cava blood pumps" was invented by Janine Robinson (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Daniel Hildebrand (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Michael Calomeni (San Jose, Calif.), Veronica Neiman (San Jose, Calif.), Tom Saul (Portland, Ore.) and Robert Edesess (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for supporting circulation. The methods may include positioning a blood pump in the arterial vasculature or the venous vasculature. The methods may include positioning a pump portion of the blood pump in a descending aorta, an in...