ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,877, issued on April 22, was assigned to Imperial College Innovations Ltd. (London).
"Systems and methods for treating cardiac arrhythmia" was invented by Prapa Kanagaratnam (London), Nick Linton (London) and Darrel Francis (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for monitoring activation in a heart comprises a probe 101, a plurality of electrodes 102 supported on the probe and extending over a detection area of the probe, the detection area being arranged to contact a detection region of the heart. Each of the electrodes 102 is arranged to detect electrical potential at a respective position in the heart during movement of a...