ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,802, issued on March 11, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Generating irreversible electroporation and radiofrequency-abaltion (IRE/RFA) waveforms" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irreversible electroporation and radio frequency ablation (IRE/RFA) generator includes an IRE pulse generator, harmonic filtration circuitry, and a waveform interleaver. The IRE pulse generator is configured to generate biphasic IRE pulses. The harmonic filtration circuitry is configured to convert the IRE pulses into an RF signal. The ...