ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,816, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Temperature controlled short duration ablation with multiple electrodes" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Yaron Ephrath (Karkur, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, including a catheter configured to be inserted into an organ of a human body. A plurality of electrodes are deployed on the catheter, the electrodes being configured to transfer radiofrequency (RF) ablation energy to tissue of the organ. The apparatus also includes a power supply configured to supply the RF ablat...