US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on June 30 for "Basket catheter with cloverleaf structure to provide predetermined lateral stiffness and axial strain" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,415, issued on June 30, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Basket catheter with cloverleaf structure to provide predetermined lateral stiffness and axial strain" was invented by Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.), Kevin Justin Herrera (West Covina, Calif.), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Athanassios Papaioannou (Irvine, Calif.), Justin George Lichter (Irvine, Calif.) and Kevin Mark Okarski (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical probe is presented including an expandable basket assembly coupled to a distal end of a tubular shaft. The basket assembly includes a cl...