US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on July 7 for "Monitoring torsion on a distal end assembly" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,921, issued on July 7, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Monitoring torsion on a distal end assembly" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Vadim Gliner (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for measuring a torque, consisting of a probe having a shaft with a shaft distal end. The probe has a distal end assembly, configured to be inserted into an organ of a human subject, and having a distal termination and a proximal termination connected to the shaft distal end. A position sensor assembly is attached to the distal end assembly in proximity to the distal termination, the po...