US Patent Issued to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) on April 7 for "Estimation of contact force of catheter expandable assembly" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,038, issued on April 7, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Estimation of contact force of catheter expandable assembly" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel), Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel), Alexander Shechtman (Haifa, Israel), Amit Fuchs (Hogla, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Irvine, Calif.) and Ishan Khan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a medical probe and a processor. The medical probe includes a shaft for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient; an expandable assemb...