ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,411, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Xenios AG (Heilbronn, Germany).

"Control for non-occlusive blood pumps" was invented by Ivo Simundic (Wendlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to control units for non-occlusive blood pumps of an extracorporeal circulatory support as well as systems comprising such a control unit and corresponding methods. Accordingly, a control unit for a non-occlusive blood pump of an extracorporeal circulatory support is configured to receive a flow value of the extracorporeal circulatory support, to receive a measurement of an arterial pressure and an ECG signal of a ...