US Patent Issued to UnitedHealth Group on Sept. 9 for "Artificial heart control systems and methods" (New Jersey, Tennessee, Michigan, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,657, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Artificial heart control systems and methods" was invented by Jon Kevin Muse (Thompsons Station, Tenn.), Gregory J. Boss (Saginaw, Mich.), Komal Khatri (Cedar Park, Texas) and Marilyn L. Gordon (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for an artificial heart enables activity-specific adjustments to the operation of an artificial heart by obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors monitoring characteristics of a patient's body, and using the sensor data as input to one or more control parameter models for identifying con...