ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,223, issued on July 14, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems and methods for cylindrical cage mapping and ablation catheters having flexible circuits" was invented by Juan Rodriguez Soto (Irvine, Calif.), Mohammad Abbas (Orange, Calif.), Babak Ebrahimi (Lake Forest, Calif.), Pieter Emmelius Van Niekerk (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Shubhayu Basu (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes a medical probe includes a substantially cylindrical structure having a proximal circular base, a distal circular base substantially parallel to the proximal circular...