ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,832, issued on June 24, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokeam, Israel).

"P-wave detection using intracardiac electrodes" was invented by Marc Wolff (Leipzig, Israel), Elad Nakar (Timrat, Israel), Eliyahu Ravuna (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Nir Yanovich (Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Israel) and Hadar Reuveny (Kibbutz Evron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring intracardiac unipolar signals and intracardiac bipolar signals at a given region of a heart of a patient. The unipolar signals are pruned by eliminating ones of the unipolar signals that correspond in time to respective bipolar signals. One or mor...