ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,851, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to THE VEKTOR GROUP INC. (San Diego).

"Delivery plan evaluation system" was invented by Christopher J.T. Villongco (Oakland, Calif.), Maurice J. Pirio (Seattle) and Marlou Janssen (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are described for developing a delivery plan for a pulsed field ablation device for treating an arrhythmia. A method runs a lesion development simulation based on cardiac characteristics and a treatment plan that specifies a delivery plan and a target location to generate a simulated lesion having lesion characteristics. The method initializes a three-dimensional...