US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Aug. 19 for "Magnetic location sensor and ultrasound array on printed-circuit-board (PCB) of catheter and calibration thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,284, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Magnetic location sensor and ultrasound array on printed-circuit-board (PCB) of catheter and calibration thereof" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical probe includes a shaft and a distal-end assembly. The shaft is configured for insertion into an organ of a body. The distal-end assembly is fitted at a distal end of the shaft. The distal-end assembly includes (a) a substrate, (b) a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound transducer array located on the substrate, ...