US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for optimizing return electrode location on the body for irreversible electroporation (IRE) procedures" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,186, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Method and system for optimizing return electrode location on the body for irreversible electroporation (IRE) procedures" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosed subject matter provides a return electrode, such as a body surface electrode, which includes an accelerometer, for detecting movement of the body at and proximate to the location of the return electrode. The body movement results from pulses from an Irreversible Electroporation (IRE) pul...