ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,042, issued on March 25, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Location pad for neurosurgical procedures" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A location pad includes multiple field-generators and a frame. The multiple field-generators are configured to generate respective magnetic fields in a region-of-interest of a patient organ, so as to measure a position of a medical instrument in the region-of-interest. The frame is transparent to an X-ray radiation, and is configured to fix the multiple field-generators at respective positions surrounding the region-of-interes...