ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,746, issued on May 12, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Apparatus and methods for reducing microbubbles formation during cardiac ablation" was invented by El Yacine Alex Smail (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards apparatuses, systems, and methods for electroporation ablation. The electroporation ablation catheter may include an electrode assembly comprising one or more electrodes configured to generate electric fields in target tissue in response to a plurality of electrical pulse sequences delivered in a plurality of...