US Patent Issued to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) on Sept. 1 for "Multi-layered catheter shaft construction with embedded single axial sensors, and related methods" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,563, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Multi-layered catheter shaft construction with embedded single axial sensors, and related methods" was invented by Debby E. Highsmith (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Meir Bar-Tal (Haifa, Israel) and Ariel Garcia (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter has improved position and/or location sensing by using single axis sensors mounted directly along a portion of the catheter whose position/location is of interest. The magnetic based, single axis sensors are provided on a single axis sensor assembly, which can be linear or nonlinear. ...