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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers Llc, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Inventors:

Timothy G. Laske, Shoreview, MN (US);

Joseph Allen Knight, Kokomo, IN (US);

Regina E. Groves, Dellwood, MN (US);

Assignee:

Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC, NE Minneapolis, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/04 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/18 (2006.01); A61B 5/042 (2006.01); A61B 5/0408 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61N 1/32 (2006.01); A61B 18/02 (2006.01); A61B 18/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 5/042 (2013.01); A61B 5/04085 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); A61B 5/6855 (2013.01); A61B 18/24 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00267 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00351 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00613 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00839 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0212 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1435 (2013.01); A61B 2505/05 (2013.01); A61N 1/327 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system capable of identifying ectopic foci, rotors, or conduction pathways involved in reentrant arrhythmias within cardiac tissue, and then treating identified ectopic foci, rotors, and/or pathways with either lethal or sub-lethal temperatures. The system includes a medical device having one or more mapping elements and one or more treatment elements, and a computer programmable to identify ectopic foci and rotors based at least in part on signals received from the one or more mapping elements at one or more locations.


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