ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,620, issued on June 10, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Ablation catheter with electrodes" was invented by Alan de la Rama (Cerritos, Calif.), Peter Chen (Irvine, Calif.) and Cary K. Hata (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter configured to deliver therapeutic energy to a tissue is disclosed. The catheter comprises an elongate shaft extending along a shaft longitudinal axis. The catheter further comprises a flexible tip assembly coupled to a distal end of the elongate shaft, the flexible tip assembly comprising at least three mapping electrodes equally spaced about a ci...