US Patent Issued to Medtronic on May 20 for "Methods of ensuring pulsed field ablation generator system electrical safety" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,184, issued on May 20, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods of ensuring pulsed field ablation generator system electrical safety" was invented by Steven J. Fraasch (Maple Grove, Minn.), Catherine R. Condie (Shoreview, Minn.), Brian T. Howard (Minneapolis), Louis Jacob (Laval, Canada), Paul S. Lam (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Trenton J. Rehberger (Minneapolis), Mark T. Stewart (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Qin Zhang (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the safe delivery of treatment energy to a patient, which includes verification of system integrity before, during, or after the delivery of tr...