ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,468, issued on March 24, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Application of non-therapeutic waveforms with gradient sensing to predict pulsed field ablation (PFA) fields" was invented by Timothy G. Laske (Shoreview, Minn.), Qingguo Zeng (Solon, Ohio), Qing Lou (Solon, Ohio), Mark T. Stewart (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Brian T. Howard (Minneapolis), Anthony W. Rorvick (Champlin, Minn.) and Gregory S. Brumfield (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation instrument are provided. According to one aspect, a method in a PFA generator includes receiving electrical responses for ea...