ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,085, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Accurate basket catheter tracking" was invented by Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a catheter including an insertion tube and a first position sensor, a pusher including a second position sensor, and an expandable assembly including flexible strips disposed circumferentially around a distal portion of the pusher, with first ends of the strips connected to the distal end of the insertion tube and second ends ...