US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Aug. 25 for "System for irreversible electroporation" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,495, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"System for irreversible electroporation" was invented by Mark Strong (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an electroporation system including a catheter shaft, at least one electrode coupled to the catheter shaft at a distal end thereof, and a signal generator. The signal generator is coupled in communication with the at least one electrode. The signal generator supplies a biphasic pulse to the at least one electrode, the biphasic pulse including a first phase having a first polarity, a first initial v...