US Patent Issued to Werner Mohl on Oct. 28 for "Blood pump for supporting cardiac performance" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,850, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Werner Mohl (Altenmarkt/Thennenberg, Austria).

"Blood pump for supporting cardiac performance" was invented by Werner Mohl (Altenmarkt-Thennenberg, Austria) and Gerd Siekmeyer (Kiel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a blood pump for supporting cardiac performance, including a stent-like housing which has a first axial end and a second axial end, a pump rotor mounted rotatably in the housing, in particular an impellor, and a flexible drive shaft, which can be coupled to a motor in order to drive the pump rotor to rotate, whereby blood is sucked in on an intake side of the pump rotor thr...