US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on March 25 for "Measuring thickness of cardiac wall tissue during ablation" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,982, issued on March 25, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Measuring thickness of cardiac wall tissue during ablation" 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: "A method for estimating a thickness of cardiac tissue undergoing ablation includes the steps of (a) applying a sequence of ablation pulses to a region of the cardiac tissue, so as to create a lesion, and (b) for a given ablation pulse in the sequence, an incremental depth added to the lesion due to the given ablation pulse is estimated. A cumulative depth of the lesio...