US Patent Issued to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division on Sept. 29 for "Flexible high-density mapping catheter" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,943, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to St. Jude Medical Cardiology Division Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Flexible high-density mapping catheter" was invented by Gregory K. Olson (Elk River, Minn.) and Don Curtis Deno (Andover, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to flexible high-density mapping catheters with a planar array of high-density mapping electrodes near a distal tip portion. These mapping catheters may be used to detect electrophysiological characteristics of tissue in contact with the electrodes, and may be used to diagnose cardiac conditions, such as cardiac arrhythmias for e...