ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,333, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Thermal mapping catheter" was invented by Carlo Pappone (Cernusco Lombardone, Italy), Alan de la Rama (Cerritos, Calif.), Gabriele Giuseppe Vicedomini (Brisighella, Italy), Cary Hata (Irvine, Calif.), Tho Hoang Nguyen (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Peter Chen (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter is disclosed comprising a catheter shaft including a proximal end and a distal end. A flexible framework can be connected to the distal end of the catheter shaft, wherein the flexible framework includes a plurality of hea...