US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Jan. 20 for "Ablation catheter with a flexible printed circuit board" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,619, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Ablation catheter with a flexible printed circuit board" was invented by Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel), Avi Reuveni (Givat Shmuel, Israel) and Eran Yona Hirszowicz (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments include apparatus that includes a catheter and a tip electrode, at a distal end of the catheter, shaped to define a plurality of microelectrode apertures. The apparatus further includes at least one printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within a lumen of the catheter, and a plurality of microelectrodes coupled to t...