ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,833, issued on April 22, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"2D pathfinder visualization" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Alon Boumendil (Givat Nili, Israel), Yair Palti (Herzelia, Israel) and Remi Bettan (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a medical apparatus, includes a medical instrument configured to move within a passage in a body of a patient, a position tracking system to track coordinates of the medical instrument within the body, a display screen, and a processor to register the position tracking system and a 3D computerize...