ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,729, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Focal arrhythmia source finder using directed graphs" was invented by Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a display and a processor. The processor is configured to (i) receive a cardiac electrophysiological (EP) velocity vectors map, (ii) compute a set of directed graphs from at least some of the velocity vectors, (iii) using the directed graphs, identify respective origin velocity vectors on the EP velocity vectors map, (iv) define one or more regions on the EP velocit...