US Patent Issued to Sirona Medical Technologies on Jan. 27 for "Multi-modal catheter for improved electrical mapping and ablation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,182, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sirona Medical Technologies Inc. (Andover, Mass.).

"Multi-modal catheter for improved electrical mapping and ablation" was invented by Ali Haghighi-Mood (Andover, Mass.) and Richard Jonathan Cohen (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various catheters are provided herein for recording, mapping, and/or ablating target tissue to reduce or eliminate unwanted electrical impulses. In one embodiment, a catheter can have a handle, an elongate body, and an end effector. The end effector has expanded and contracted configurations and can rotate about the elongate body. A plurality of electrodes...