US Patent Issued to Biosense Webster (Israel) on Sept. 1 for "Finding elongation of expandable distal end of catheter" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,971, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Finding elongation of expandable distal end of catheter" was invented by Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Avigdor Rosenberg (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer readable medium comprising instructions to be executed by one or more processors, the instructions configured to cause a system to estimate, based at least in part on signals received from a first position sensor of an expandable assembly disposed along a longitudinal axis, a position and longitudinal direction of the first position sensor; and estimate, based...