US Patent Issued to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) on Nov. 4 for "Flexible-circuit tip for a split-tip catheter" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,436, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Flexible-circuit tip for a split-tip catheter" was invented by Anand Rao (Tustin, Calif.), Christopher T. Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Rajesh Pendekanti (Chino Hills, Calif.) and Keshava Datta (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter tip may be a fabricated as a planar flexible circuit, e.g., via lithography, as having a first planar segment and a second planar segment that includes various electrodes on different sectors that are insulated from each other. The tip may be deformed to have a non-planar configuration, e.g., cylind...