ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,268, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Gap finder index for high power short duration (HPSD) RF lesions" was invented by Alaa Zoubi (Sakhnin, Israel), Muhammad Khatib (Yafa an-Naseriyye, Israel), Ofer Klemm (Koranit, Israel), Erez Silberschein (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Meir Bar-Tal (Halfa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described herein. The method is implemented by an optimization engine executed by a processor. The optimization engine receives data that includes performance metrics of mapping and ablation procedures. In turn, the optimization generates procedure ex...