US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Dec. 16 for "Contoured electrodes for pulsed electric field ablation, and systems, devices, and methods thereof" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,123, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Contoured electrodes for pulsed electric field ablation, and systems, devices, and methods thereof" was invented by Raju Viswanathan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided herein for delivering pulsed electric fields to ablation tissue (e.g., cardiac tissue). An ablation device can include one or more contoured electrodes with contoured edges that are disposed on an insulating member of the ablation device. The contoured electrodes can be configured to reduce an electric field intensit...