US Patent Issued to The George Washington University, 460Medical on July 1 for "Systems and methods for determining lesion depth using fluorescence imaging" (Virginia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,114, issued on July 1, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington) and 460Medical Inc. (Weston, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for determining lesion depth using fluorescence imaging" was invented by Marco A. Mercader (Arlington, Va.), Narine Sarvazyan (Lambertville, N.J.), Terrance J. Ransbury (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kenneth C. Armstrong (Cary, N.C.) and Omar Amirana (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, catheter and methods for treating Atrial Fibrillation (AF) are provided, which are configure to illuminate a heart tissue having a lesion site; obtain a mitochondrial nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hy...