US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Jan. 27 for "Temperature-controlled pulsed RF ablation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,173, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Temperature-controlled pulsed RF ablation" was invented by Israel Zilberman (Yokneam, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Gili Attias (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments include a system and method for pulsed RF ablation that includes generating a plurality of pulses of radiofrequency (RF) current for application to tissue of a subject for cardiac ablation, driving the RF each one of the pulses such that the power of the pulse initially rises from zero to a maximum value, each one of the pulses having a dur...