ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,452, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Ent tools" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A registration device, including a wand, a light guide passing through the wand, and a position sensor fixed to the wand. A light source outputs a modulated beam of light into a light guide proximal end, so that the light is emitted from a light guide distal end toward a surface in proximity to a wand distal tip. A detect...