US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Dec. 16 for "Detection of catheter location, orientation, and movement direction" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,432, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Detection of catheter location, orientation, and movement direction" was invented by Elad Azaria (Ramat Gan, Israel), Tamir Avraham Yellin (Yokneam Hamoshava, Israel), Dan Sztejnberg (Hertzliya, Israel), Michael Maydel (Haifa, Israel) and Alon Ben Natan (Kiryat Bialik, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and systems for medical procedures are disclosed herein and include a catheter having a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode configured to transmit first electromagnetic signals and the second electr...