US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Sept. 23 for "Irreversible electroporation with shorted electrodes" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,683, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Irreversible electroporation with shorted electrodes" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.) and Justin George Lichter (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use with multiple electrodes coupled to respective spines of a probe includes multiple switches connected to the electrodes and configured to short different respective first subsets of the electrodes to each other and different respective second subsets of the electrodes to...