US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on April 8 for "Electric field application for single shot cardiac ablation by irreversible electroporation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,437, issued on April 8, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Electric field application for single shot cardiac ablation by irreversible electroporation" was invented by Brendan E. Koop (Ham Lake, Minn.), Andrew L. De Kock (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Allan C. Shuros (St Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are apparatus, systems, and methods for ablating tissue in a patient by electroporation. Embodiments generally include an ablation catheter having a hand, a shaft, and an electroporation electrode arrangement. The shaft has a distal end and defines a longitudinal axis of the ablation...