ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,835, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Assessing lesions formed in an ablation procedure" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes, receiving: (i) a selected three-dimensional (3D) section that has been ablated in a patient organ in accordance with a specified contour, and (ii) a dataset, which is indicative of a set of lesions formed during ablation of the selected 3D section. The selected 3D section is transformed into a two-dimensional (2D) map, and checking, on the 2D map, whether the set of lesions covers the specified contour...