ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,070, issued on April 21, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"System and method for determining segments for ablation" was invented by Clifford Robinson (St. Louis), Phillip Cuculich (St. Louis) and Geoffrey Hugo (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting one or more targets for non-invasively treating a cardiac arrhythmia in a patient includes receiving a mapping associated with the patient's heart and generating a segmented model of the mapping associated with the patient's heart. The segmented model divides the mapping into a plurality of segments. The method includes identifying one or more a...