ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,538, issued on July 22, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Indifferent electrode with selectable area" was invented by Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an indifferent electrode, electrical switching circuitry, and a processor. The indifferent electrode, which is configured for placement on a body of a patient, includes multiple electrically-conducting sub-electrodes that are electrically-insulated from one another. The electrical switching circuitry is configured to receive a control signal that specifies a selected subset of the sub-electrodes,...