Patent 12133977 was granted and assigned to Medtronic on November, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A controller for an implantable blood pump includes processing circuitry configured to initiate a suction response algorithm if a combination of a number of detected suction events multiplied by a suction event variable and a number of non-suction events multiplied by a non-suction event variable exceed a predetermined threshold.