US Patent Issued to The George Washing University, Northwestern University on May 6 for "Systems and methods for selective his bundle mapping and pacing" (Virginia, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,689, issued on May 6, was assigned to The George Washing University (Washington) and Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for selective his bundle mapping and pacing" was invented by Igor R. Efimov (Arlington, Va.), Jaclyn Ann Brennan (Fairfax, Va.) and John A. Rogers (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for an electrical sensing, pacing, and ablation device comprising a bendable and stretchable balloon catheter and a bendable and stretchable first layer connected to or embedded in said balloon catheter, where the first layer has an electrode array with a plurality...