ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,489, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Measuring tissue proximity for multi-electrode catheter" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel), Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel), Alon Boumendil (Givat Nili, Israel) and Uri Avni (Ram-on, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a catheter and a processor. The catheter includes a distal-end assembly coupled to a distal end of a shaft for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient, the distal-end assembly including (i) one or more functional electrodes configured to be placed in con...