US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Feb. 10 for "Multiple pulse width trains to enhance ablation homogeneity in highly oriented cellular substrates" (Slovene, Slovenian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,124, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Multiple pulse width trains to enhance ablation homogeneity in highly oriented cellular substrates" was invented by Mark T. Stewart (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Lars M. Mattison (Blaine, Minn.), Brian T. Howard (Minneapolis), Damijan Miklavcic (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Tadej Kotnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Janja Dermol-Cerne (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Tina Batista Napotnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering pulsed electric field energy to perform ablation of a tissue includes providing a pulse train to an electrode. The pulse train may in...