ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,963, issued on July 8, was assigned to St. Jude Medical LLC (Abbott Park, Ill.).
"Optical feedback RF ablator and ablator tip" was invented by John W. Sliwa (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Stephen A. Morse (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Zhenyi Ma (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation catheter comprises an elongated catheter body; at least one ablation element disposed in a distal portion which is adjacent the distal end of the catheter body; an illumination optical element disposed in the distal portion, the illumination optical element being light-transmissive to emit light from the illumination optical element to the ...