US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Nov. 18 for "Strengthened expandable baskets for medical probes and medical probes containing strengthen expandable baskets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,989, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Strengthened expandable baskets for medical probes and medical probes containing strengthen expandable baskets" was invented by Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Athanassios Papaioannou (Irvine, Calif.), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Jose Jimenez (Ontario, Calif.), Kevin Rorick (Irvine, Calif.) and Guo Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example expandable basket assembly for a medical probe may include a plurality of spines extending along a longitudinal axis from a proximal central proximal spine porti...