US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on June 16 for "Systems, devices, and methods for ablation of endocardial tissue" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,610, issued on June 16, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for ablation of endocardial tissue" was invented by Raju Viswanathan (Mountain View, Calif.), Allan Zingeler (Menlo Park, Calif.), Gary Long (Cincinnati), Jean-Luc Pageard (Montreal) and Brittney Hachey (Dorval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation catheter comprises a proximal portion, a distal portion extending from the proximal portion, the distal portion comprising a set of insulated lead segments each having a distal end; and a set of uninsulated electrode segments, wherein each electrode segmen...