US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on June 10 for "System, method, and apparatus for mapping local activation times" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,671, issued on June 10, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"System, method, and apparatus for mapping local activation times" was invented by Jatin Relan (Bordeaux, France) and Valtino X. Afonso (Oakdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroanatomical mapping system graphically represents local activation time (LAT) information contained in data set including a plurality of electrophysiology (EP) data points. The system computes a spatial gradient over a spatial kernel centered at an EP data point and a plurality of temporal gradients for the EP data points set. Using the gradients...