US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on July 21 for "Irreversible electroporation (IRE) based on field, contact force and time" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,588, issued on July 21, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Irreversible electroporation (IRE) based on field, contact force and time" was invented by Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system includes, using a probe, applying irreversible electroporation (IRE) pulses to tissue over a time period to form a lesion in the tissue. A contact force applied to the tissue by the probe is measured over the time period. An IRE index is calculated based on the measured contact force and on a power level o...