ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,259, issued on April 29, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Identification and visualization of cardiac activation sequence in multi-channel recordings" was invented by Ziyad Zeidan (Zemmer, Israel) and Gal Hayam (Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intracardiac electrograms are recorded using a multi-electrode catheter and respective annotations established. Within a time window a pattern comprising a monotonically increasing local activation time sequence from a set of electrograms from neighboring electrodes is detected. The set is reordered and displayed for the operator."

The patent was f...