US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on July 29 for "Systems and methods for identifying ablation locations using principal component analysis" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,983, issued on July 29, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for identifying ablation locations using principal component analysis" was invented by Louis-Philippe Richer (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying potential ablation sites using principal component analysis (PCA) are provided. A method includes generating a dataset for analysis, the dataset including a plurality of variables and generated using imaging data associated with a three-dimensional geometry that includes a plurality of vertices. The method further includes performi...