US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 20 for "System and method for real-time guidance of an electrophysiology catheter for targeting a location of origin of an arrhythmia" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,145, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"System and method for real-time guidance of an electrophysiology catheter for targeting a location of origin of an arrhythmia" was invented by Konstantinos N. Aronis (Baltimore), Ronald D. Berger (Baltimore), Natalia A. Trayanova (Baltimore), Shijie Zhou (Baltimore) and Harikrishna Tandri (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for a navigational feedback to a catheter during an arrhythmia ablation procedure. A set of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals of a patient's arrhythmia is recorded that correspond to an ...