ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,017, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Anumana Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Removal of cardiac and respiratory motion from geometric points acquired from cardiac catheter electrodes" was invented by Robert L Lux (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing at least one electrical signal received from a mapping catheter electrode during cardiac mapping of a patient's heart is disclosed. The method comprises processing the at least one electrical signal to identify a heartbeat in the signal at a time t; analyzing a portion of the at least one electrical signal prior to the detected heartbeat to identify a time ...