ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,269, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Displaying indications of mutual distances among electrodes of a flexible ablation catheter" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: (i) a processor, configured to receive position signals indicative of a first position of a first electrode coupled to a catheter, and a second position of a second electrode coupled to the catheter; calculate, based on the position signals, a distance between the first and second electrodes; and produce a first indica...