US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATE on Sept. 16 for "Methods for tracking rotational activation sites in atrial fibrillation" (South Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,730, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.) and PRISMA HEALTH-UPSTATE (Greenville, S.C.).

"Methods for tracking rotational activation sites in atrial fibrillation" was invented by Donald S. Rubenstein (Greenville, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cardiac mapping catheters and methods for using the catheters are described. The catheter can detect the presence, direction and/or source of a depolarization wave front associated with cardiac arrhythmia. A mapping catheter includes a plurality of bipolar electrode pairs in which the members of each pair are opposed to one another across a peri...