US Patent Issued to The George Washington University, Northwestern University on Jan. 27 for "High resolution multi-function and conformal electronics device for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,179, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington) and Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"High resolution multi-function and conformal electronics device for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias" was invented by Igor R. Efimov (Washington), Kedar Aras (Washington), John A. Rogers (Evanston, Ill.), Erdit Gremi (Washington) and David Pospisil (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a high resolution, multi-function, conformal electronics device generally having a flexible and stretchable, high-density electrode array, integrated with a catheter (...