ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,166, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KARDIUM INC. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Systems and methods for facilitating improved transducer-to-tissue contact" was invented by Saar Moisa (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter device system may include a plurality of transducers positionable in a bodily cavity defined by at least a tissue wall, each transducer configured to sense a degree of contact between the transducer and the tissue wall. A data processing device system may be configured by a program to receive a plurality of degree-of-contact signals respectively from the plurality of transducers, the signals respectiv...