ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,179, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Safety circuit for DC leakage detection" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety circuit, in the form of a switch box, for coupling with a catheter, detects DC leakage or emission from an amplifier circuit of the catheter, and switches a switch to immediately terminates (cuts-off) power to the amplifier circuit. This immediate power termination instantaneously stops DC leakage, which if left unchecked or otherwise undetected, may r...