US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 5 for "Radio-frequency ablation and direct current electroporation catheters" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,901, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Radio-frequency ablation and direct current electroporation catheters" was invented by Derek C. Sutermeister (Ham Lake, Minn.), Troy T. Tegg (Elk River, Minn.) and Salo Arias (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to flexible catheters for both electrophysiology mapping and ablation using a high-density array of electrodes. These catheters may be used to detect electrophysiological characteristics of tissue in contact with the electrodes, and conduct monopolar and bipolar abl...