ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,724, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Facilitating ablative radiotherapy using an intrabody catheter" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing ablative radiotherapy includes registering a first coordinate system of a tracking system for tracking a distal end of an intra-body catheter with a second coordinate system of a beam-directing system, tracking the location of a distal end of the catheter, receiving instructions from a user to ablate target tissue within the body with the beam-directing system and based on the registr...