US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Oct. 21 for "Methods and devices for estimating tip-tissue coupling of an ablation catheter tip" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,954, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Methods and devices for estimating tip-tissue coupling of an ablation catheter tip" was invented by Troy T. Tegg (Elk River, Minn.), Brett A. Hillukka (Hanover, Minn.), Timothy G. Curran (Ramsey, Minn.) and Jeffrey M. Fish (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to, for example, a method for determining a temperature distribution across an ablation catheter tip. The method including contacting tissue with a distal tip of an ablation catheter, receiving temperature data from a pl...