ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,179, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hangzhou Dinova EP Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Ablation catheter and ablation system" was invented by Cheng Liu (Hangzhou, China) and Kun Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation catheter and an ablation system are provided. The ablation catheter includes a sheath and an ablation assembly. The ablation assembly is disposed at a distal end of the sheath for performing ablation and isolation on a target tissue area. The ablation system includes the ablation device and a mapping device, the mapping device includes a mapping electrode arranged at a distal end of ...