US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on June 9 for "Systems and methods for assessing ablation lesions" (Canadian, American, Italian, French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,807, issued on June 9, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for assessing ablation lesions" was invented by Jan O. Mangual-Soto (Rho, Italy), Louis-Philippe Richer (Montreal), Chunlan Jiang (Crystal, Minn.), Cyrille Casset (Saint Selve, France) and Craig Markovitz (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for assessing ablation lesions. The system includes an ablation catheter configured to ablate a target cardiac tissue site to form an ablation lesion thereon, and a mechanical probe operable to impart mechanical force to the target cardia...