ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,308, issued on May 6, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"High frequency unipolar electroporation ablation" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Yuri Shamis (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroporation ablation system includes a probe to be inserted into a body part of a living subject, and including a distal end including at least one electrode, body-surface patches to be applied to a skin surface, an ablation power generator to apply at least one first electrical pulse train between the electrode(s) and first one(s) of the body-su...