ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,056, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Temperature control for IRE" 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 apparatus includes a probe, which includes an insertion tube configured for insertion into a body cavity of a patient, a distal structure connected distally to the insertion tube and including a plurality of electrodes, which are configured to contact tissue within the body, and temperature sensors fixed to the distal structure and configured to output signals indicative of a temperature ...