ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,672, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Visualizing catheter irrigation using schlieren images" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel), Eran Aharon (Haifa, Israel) and Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for visualizing catheter irrigation, the system includes a fluid container, a pump, a schlieren imaging assembly and a processor. The fluid container is configured to: (i) contain a first fluid, which is at least partially transparent and has a first temperature, and (ii) receive into the first fluid a catheter ha...