Patents Assigned to Howmedica, Incorporated
  • Pulsatile blood pumping apparatus and method
    Patent number: 4231354
    Abstract: An intracorporeal, extracorporeal, cardiac assist, perfusion device or other pulsatile blood pumping system for circulating blood within living tissue under automatic control. Plural physiologic parameters of the tissue are monitored and utilized to control plural operating parameters of the pump during succeeding cycles of its operation so as to restore the monitored physiologic parameters to desired predetermined (but adjustable) values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1980
    Assignee: Howmedica, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert J. Kurtz, Spencer J. Silverstein