ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,075, issued on May 26, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Method and system for calculating and utilizing PFA ablation index" was invented by Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel) and Liran Schwartz (Kiryat Motzkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product, the method comprising receiving input from a force sensor on a catheter, the catheter comprising electrodes for ablating a heart of a patient, the catheter placed at a location within the heart; based at least on the received input, calculating a predicted PFA ablation index (PFA AI) of an ablation that ...