ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,131, issued on June 3, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Reduced size force sensor" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel) and Joseph Thomas Keyes (Glendora, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible probe has an assembly in its distal end that includes a compressible spring, the compressible spring arranged in a helix having flat surfaces with at least one leg at each end of the spring. The compressible spring is configured to deform in response to a compressive force acting a...