ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,492, issued on April 15, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).
"Magnetic navigation systems and methods" was invented by Tamer Ibrahim (Danville, Calif.) and David K. Swanson (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for forming a lesion on an endocardial tissue of a patient's heart involve placing an ablation assembly inside of the heart and adjacent to the endocardial tissue, and placing a guiding assembly outside of the heart. An ablation assembly includes an ablation element and a first attraction element, and a guiding assembly includes a second attraction element. First and second attraction ele...