ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,167, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TC1 LLC (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Blood pump controllers having daisy-chained batteries" was invented by Kevin Conyers (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Jesse Gage (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Carine Hoarau (Lafayette, Calif.), Jaime Arturo Romero (San Leandro, Calif.) and Joseph C. Stark III (San Leandro, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and related methods for supplying power to an implantable blood pump are provided. A system includes a base module and a plurality of energy storage devices. A first energy storage device is operatively coupled to the base module. A second energy storage device is...