US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 8 for "Systems, devices, and methods for ablation of endocardial tissue" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,940, issued on Sept. 8, 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: "Systems, devices, and methods for electroporation ablation therapy are disclosed, with the device including a set of splines coupled to a catheter for medical ablation therapy. Each spline of the set of splines may include a set of electrodes formed on that spline. Th...