ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,463, issued on June 24, was assigned to STAR BP INC. (Spring, Texas).
"Blood pump controller and system" was invented by Jared D. Allen (Apex, N.C.), Sean K. Barry (Yukon, Okla.), Dana G. Pelletier (Newcastle, Okla.) and J. Ryan Stanfield (Sandy, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pump system includes a blood pump and a corresponding controller. The blood pump includes an impeller that is sealed within the pump housing and hydrodynamically suspended within the pump housing. The pump impeller includes magnets, and is the rotor of a brushless direct current (DC) motor that is driven by electrical signals through stator wire co...