ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,317, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Balloon catheter with ultrasonic transducers" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balloon catheter that has one or more ultrasonic transducers to map a body cavity and to measure thicknesses of walls in the body cavity during an ablation procedure. The balloon of the catheter is deployable through a lumen into the body cavity with a flexible printed circuit board that has a first side attached to the exterior wall of the inflatable balloon and a second side...