US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 12 for "Profile parameter selection algorithm for electroporation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,328, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Profile parameter selection algorithm for electroporation" was invented by Brian T. Howard (Minneapolis), Steven J. Fraasch (Maple Grove, Minn.), Mark T. Stewart (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and John Vandanacker (Rockford, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulsed field ablation medical device. Among other things, the medical device includes processing circuitry in communication with an electrosurgical generator and a plurality of electrodes. In one example, the processing circuitry is configured to determine a desired lesion characteristic; determine a first waveform ...