ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,439, issued on April 8, was assigned to KARDIUM INC. (Burnaby, Canada).
"Intra-cardiac mapping and ablating" was invented by Daniel Robert Weinkam (Coquitlam, Canada) and Jeffery Charles Brewster (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices allow percutaneous mapping, orientation and/or ablation in bodily cavities or lumens. Such may include a structure that is percutaneously positionable in a cavity, such as an intra-cardiac cavity of a heart. Transducers carried by the structure are responsive to blood flow. For example, the transducers may sense temperature, temperature being related to convective ...