ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,643, issued on May 13, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Intravascular needle with flex circuit" was invented by Matthew Hitzeroth (Irwindale, Calif.), Daniele Ghidoli (Irwindale, Calif.) and Raymond Yue-Sing Tang (Irwindale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ablation and diagnostic tools having a wrapped flexible circuit are provided. The wrapped flexible circuit can include one or more electrodes on a surface layer, one or more conductive traces on one or more lower layers, and an electrically insulating substrate. The surface layer can be patterned to have multiple electrodes. The lower layer(s...