US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 3 for "Computational localization of fibrillation sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,044, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Computational localization of fibrillation sources" was invented by David E. Krummen (Del Mar, Calif.), Andrew D. McCulloch (San Diego), Christopher T. Villongco (San Diego) and Gordon Ho (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for computational localization of fibrillation sources is provided. In some implementations, the system performs operations comprising generating a representation of electrical activation of a patient's heart and comparing, based on correlation, the generated representation against one or more store...