US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 11 for "Flexible high-density mapping catheter tips and flexible ablation catheter tips with onboard high-density mapping electrodes" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,825, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Flexible high-density mapping catheter tips and flexible ablation catheter tips with onboard high-density mapping electrodes" was invented by Alan de la Rama (Cerritos, Calif.), Cary Hata (Irvine, Calif.), Don Curtis Deno (Andover, Minn.) and Carlo Pappone (Cernusco Lombardone, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible high-density mapping catheter tips and flexible ablation catheter tips with onboard high-density mapping electrodes are disclosed. These tips can be used for diagnosing and treating cardiac arrhythmias. The flexibl...