US Patent Issued to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems on Sept. 23 for "Expandable member for an electrophysiology catheter" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,580, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Expandable member for an electrophysiology catheter" was invented by Julie Pham Mou (Newark, Calif.), Hugo Antonio Cobar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ernest Munoz (Des Moines, Wash.), Cynthia R. Lee (Belmont, Calif.), Lei Zhou (Fremont, Calif.), David Alves (Redwood City, Calif.) and Steven Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expandable electrophysiology catheters having electrodes mounted on splines of an expandable member are described. The splines of the expandable member include subsegments between a proximal location a...