ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,828, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Mapping of atrial fibrillation" was invented by Richard P. M. Houben (Lanaken, Belgium), Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel), Yaniv Ben Zriham (Binyamina, Israel), Roy Urman (Karkur, Israel) and Shmuel Auerbach (Kerem Maharal, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electroanatomic mapping is carried out by inserting a multi-electrode probe into a heart of a living subject, recording electrograms from the electrodes concurrently at respective locations in the heart, delimiting respective activation time intervals in the electrograms, generating a map of e...