US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on July 8 for "Sequential activation of electrode-pairs during irreversible electroporation (IRE)" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,962, issued on July 8, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Sequential activation of electrode-pairs during irreversible electroporation (IRE)" was invented by Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Ella Ozeri (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irreversible electroporation (IRE) method includes placing multiple electrodes of a catheter in contact with tissue of an organ. Bipolar IRE pulses are generated. The tissue is ablated by applying the bipolar IRE pulses to pairs of the electrodes, in accordance with an order in which successive activations of a gi...