US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Sept. 30 for "Catheter with thin-film electrodes on expandable mechanical structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,945, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Catheter with thin-film electrodes on expandable mechanical structure" was invented by Shubhayu Basu (Anaheim, Calif.), Dustin R. Tobey (San Dimas, Calif.), Pieter E. Van Niekerk (Monrovia, Calif.) and Cesar Fuentes-Ortega (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a catheter and an end effector. At least a portion of the catheter is sized and configured to fit within a lumen of a cardiovascular system. The end effector is positioned at a distal end of the catheter. The end effector includes a panel, a plurality of...