ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,260, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Presidio Medical Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for cardiac conduction block" was invented by Kenneth S. Wu (San Francisco) and Douglas Michael Ackermann (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to electrophysiology cardiac ablation devices, methods, and systems. In particular, this disclosure relates to devices, methods, and systems that create a reversible non-ablative blockade of cardiac tissue, test the cardiac tissue, and ablate the cardiac tissue."

The patent was filed on Feb. 8, 2019, under Application No. 16/968,531.

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