ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,447, issued on March 4, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Israel).

"Multi-axial position sensors printed on a folded flexible circuit board" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel) and Avi Reuveni (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensor includes a flexible substrate formed into a three-dimensional (3D) shape. At least first and second field-sensing coils are formed in first and second respective layers of the flexible substrate, such that in the 3D shape the first and second field-sensing coils have first and second respective axes that are not parallel t...