ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,602, issued on June 3, was assigned to Xenios AG (Heilbronn, Germany).

"System for cardiac assistance, method for operating the system and cardiac support method" was invented by Ivo Simundic (Wendlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracorporeal cardiac assistance system, comprising a pump being configured to create a fluid flow from a suction line to a pressure line of the system; further comprising a control device configured to control the pump and/or an adjustable flow limiter to provide an adjustable flow rate and/or a pressure, wherein the control device is configured to execute a support mode with a plurality of...