US Patent Issued to ZOLL Circulation on May 20 for "Heat exchange system for patient temperature control with easy loading high performance peristaltic pump" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,631, issued on May 20, was assigned to ZOLL Circulation Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Heat exchange system for patient temperature control with easy loading high performance peristaltic pump" was invented by Christo Petrov Pamichev (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peristaltic pump has an arcuate raceway with a partially concave inner surface extending through an arc of at least one hundred eighty degrees (180deg). The arc defines a midpoint, and a rotor faces the inner surface of the raceway and is both rotatable relative to the raceway and translationally movable relat...