US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 18 for "System and method for mapping arrhythmic driver sites" (Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,308, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"System and method for mapping arrhythmic driver sites" was invented by Don Curtis Deno (Andover, Minn.), Steve Kim (New York), Fikri Goksu (Arden Hills, Minn.) and Thomas Hartley (Menomonie, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrhythmic foci and other driver sites can be mapped using a multi-dimensional catheter. For instance, using a clique of three or more electrodes on the multi-dimensional catheter, an electroanatomical mapping system can identify a maximum bipolar voltage and an average unipolar voltage. The ratio of the averag...