US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Feb. 17 for "Graphical contact quality indicator for balloon catheter navigation" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,270, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Graphical contact quality indicator for balloon catheter navigation" was invented by Qun Sha (Diamond Bar, Calif.), Avigdor Rosenberg (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Eid Adawi (Tur'an, Israel), Tushar Sharma (Arcadia, Calif.), Ahmed Abdelaal (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Xiangming Zhang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for medical treatment includes a probe including multiple electrodes and configured to be inserted in a body cavity of a patient so as to bring the multiple electrodes into contact with tissue in the body cavity....