US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 24 for "Architectures for high density mapping and ablating catheters using flexible circuit boards" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,470, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Architectures for high density mapping and ablating catheters using flexible circuit boards" was invented by Nathan P. Hagstrom (Minneapolis), Brian Soltis (St. Paul, Minn.), Edward J. Maierhofer (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Andrew L. DeKock (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Brendan E. Koop (Ham Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter for ablation of tissue through irreversible electroporation includes an electrode assembly comprising a flexible circuit having a distally located central flex circuit hub and a plurality of flex circuit branches...