US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on April 8 for "Personalized computational modeling of atrial fibrosis to guide catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,451, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Personalized computational modeling of atrial fibrosis to guide catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation" was invented by Natalia A. Trayanova (Baltimore) and Kathleen McDowell (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, system, and media for identifying one or more ablation locations in an atrial tissue region in an atrial fibrillation (AF) patient with atrial fibrosis are disclosed. Three-dimensional imaging data representing the atria of the patient may be received. A patient-specific model of the atria may be generated from the three-dimensi...