US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Nov. 3 for "Reconstructing a 4D shell of a volume of an organ using a 4D ultrasound catheter" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,547, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Reconstructing a 4D shell of a volume of an organ using a 4D ultrasound catheter" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Andres Claudio Altmann (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes an ultrasound probe and a processor. The ultrasound probe is configured for insertion into an organ of a body and includes (i) a two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound transducer array, and (ii) a sensor configured to output signals indicative of a position and orientation of the 2D ultrasound transducer array inside the organ. The...