ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,596, issued on July 21, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"System and method to determine the location of a catheter" was invented by Morris Ziv-Ari (Atlit, Israel), Assaf Cohen (Bialik, Israel), Itai Doron (Katsir, Israel) and Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for automatically generating CPM matrices. The system includes a processor configured to receive a plurality of historical, sparse CPM matrices and a plurality of historical, supplemented CPM matrices, wherein each sparse CPM matrix is associated with a respective supplement...