ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,637, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for controlled delivery of pulsed electric field ablative energy to tissue" was invented by Raju Viswanathan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for current control of energy delivery to ablate tissue are disclosed. A generator may include a set of electrode channels coupled to a set of electrodes during use. Each electrode channel from the set of electrode channels may include a first switch from a first set of switches and a second switch from a second set of switches. A se...