US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Feb. 25 for "Configuring perimeter of balloon electrode as location sensor" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,804, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Israel).

"Configuring perimeter of balloon electrode as location sensor" was invented by Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable balloon, which is coupled to a distal end of a shaft for insertion into an organ of a patient, includes an expandable membrane, one or more electrodes and one or more respective conductive coils. The one or more electrodes are disposed over an external surface of the membrane. The one or more respective conductive coils are each disposed proximate a respective RF ablation electrode. The one or more condu...