US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on June 24 for "Finding roll angle of distal end of deflectable or non-deflectable invasive medical instrument" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,767, issued on June 24, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Finding roll angle of distal end of deflectable or non-deflectable invasive medical instrument" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a medical instrument, a position sensor, and a processor. The medical instrument includes a handle and a head, the head being configured for insertion into an organ of a patient and having a feature that is rotationally-asymmetric about a longitudinal axis of the medical instrument. The position sensor, which is disposed on th...