US Patent Issued to THE VEKTOR GROUP, The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Heart wall refinement of arrhythmia source locations" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,996, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to THE VEKTOR GROUP INC. (San Diego) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Heart wall refinement of arrhythmia source locations" was invented by David E. Krummen (San Diego), Robert Joseph Krummen (Bellevue, Wash.) and Christopher J. T. Villongco (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for localizing the source of an arrhythmia within a heart wall is disclosed. The method involves accessing an indication of the source location of the arrhythmia within the endocardium. A normal vector is generated that is normal to the endocardium at the source location in t...