ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,153, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Pulmonary vein isolation gap finder" was invented by Etan Saba (Haifa, Israel), David Izraeli (Haifa, Israel), Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel) and Doron Moshe Ludwin (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gap between a plurality of ablation sites in a heart that hinders electrical propagation therethrough is found by projecting the locations of the sites in a 3-dimensional coordinate system onto a simulation plane, identifying a set of shortest 3-dimensional paths that correspond to 2-dimensional connections between pairs of the projected...