US Patent Issued to Washington University on Sept. 2 for "System and method for determining segments for ablation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,792, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"System and method for determining segments for ablation" was invented by Clifford Robinson (St. Louis), Phillip Cuculich (St. Louis) and Geoffrey Hugo (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for determining one or more cardiac arrhythmia targets for ablation. The method may include receiving one or more mappings, identifying an abnormality in the one or more mappings, combining the one or more mappings, and defining the one or more cardiac arrhythmia targets based on an overlap of the identified abnormality in the co...