US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for detecting catheter deliberate motion" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,143, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for detecting catheter deliberate motion" was invented by Hai Huang (Woodbury, Minn.), Orit Brimer Limor (Haifa, Israel), Hana Boudlali (Blaine, Minn.), Ashish Bhargava (Woodbury, Minn.) and Kristi Tanouye (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for detecting deliberate motion of a catheter positioned within a patient and including a magnetic sensor includes collecting a plurality of first magnetic sensor samples. The method includes measuring a...