US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on May 13 for "Method and apparatus for rapid and safe pulmonary vein cardiac ablation" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,648, issued on May 13, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for rapid and safe pulmonary vein cardiac ablation" was invented by Gary Long (Cincinnati) and Raju Viswanathan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a shaft, the shaft including a plurality of stepped sections along the length of the shaft. The apparatus further includes a plurality of electrodes disposed along the length of the shaft, each electrode characterized by a geometric aspect ratio of the length of the electrode to the outer diameter of the electrode. Each electrode is locat...