ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,127, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Impedance measurements using burst pulses to prevent noise on ECG" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Yaron Ephrath (Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring the impedance of one or more of a plurality of leads in an electrocardiogram (ECG) are disclosed. These may include applying a plurality of leads to a patient's body, applying a plurality impedance pads to the patient's body, providing a burst pulse from the catheter electrode of the ECG, measuring impedance signals across ones of the pl...