US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Atrial Fibrillation Division on June 24 for "Catheter systems" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,172, issued on June 24, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Atrial Fibrillation Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Catheter systems" was invented by Saurav Paul (Shoreview, Minn.), Troy T. Tegg (Elk River, Minn.), Israel A. Byrd (Richfield, Minn.), Riki Thao (Little Canada, Minn.), Harry A. Puryear (Shoreview, Minn.) and Linda Nemec (Andover, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter systems include direction-sensitive, multi-polar tip electrode assemblies for electroporation-mediated therapy, electroporation-induced primary necrosis therapy and electric field-induced apoptosis therapy, including configurations for producing narrow, ...