ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,491, issued on April 15, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Epicardial ablation catheter" was invented by Raju Viswanathan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jean-Luc Pageard (Montreal, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed herein, with a cinch device for positioning an ablation catheter relative to tissue during a cardiac ablation procedure. In some embodiments, a distal end of a first device may be advanced into a proximal end of a first lumen of a second device. The first device may be advanced from a distal end of the first ...