US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for limiting arcing in electroporation systems" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,331, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for limiting arcing in electroporation systems" was invented by Frederik Henricus Matheus Wittkampf (Lage Vuursche, Netherlands), Rene Van Es (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Israel Byrd (Richfield, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for limiting arcing during an electroporation procedure. A method includes delivering a calibration shock using a catheter, measuring a current delivered during the calibration shock and a voltage delivered during the calibration shock, ...