US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Jan. 27 for "Basket end effector with distal position sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,185, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Basket end effector with distal position sensor" was invented by Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Kevin Justin Herrera (West Covina, Calif.) and Nathaniel Jenkins (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein generally include a catheter with a basket assembly at a distal tip having an atraumatic structure on a distal portion of the basket assembly and a distal sensor coupled to the atraumatic structure. The basket assembly includes spines that collapse for delivery through a delivery sheath cath...