US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on March 3 for "Basket catheter having insulated ablation electrodes and diagnostic electrodes" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,441, issued on March 3, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Basket catheter having insulated ablation electrodes and diagnostic electrodes" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel), Christopher Thomas Beeckler (Brea, Calif.), Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel), Joseph Thomas Keyes (Sierra Madre, Calif.) and Kevin Justin Herrera (West Covina, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter configured to be used in a medical procedure includes a shaft and electrically conductive splines. The splines can include an insulated portion and a non-insulated portion configured to electrically ablate tis...