ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,448, issued on June 17, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Flexible multi-arm catheter with diametrically opposed sensing electrodes" was invented by Kevin Justin Herrera (West Covina, Calif.), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument includes a shaft, multiple flexible spines and multiple electrodes. The shaft is configured for insertion into a body of a patient. The multiple flexible spines have respective first ends that are connected to a distal end of the shaft and resp...