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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. 30, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2016
Applicant:

Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., Yokneam, IL;

Inventors:

Paul Tran, San Gabriel, CA (US);

Mario A. Solis, Rancho Cucamonga, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0492 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/042 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/6858 (2013.01); A61B 5/0422 (2013.01); A61B 5/6859 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00044 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00267 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00351 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure is directed to a catheter having a basket-shaped electrode assembly at the distal end of the catheter body formed from a plurality of spines with electrodes. The basket-shaped electrode assembly structural elements at the proximal and distal ends. The structural elements may maintain the spines in a desired spatial relationship with each other and/or may couple the distal ends of the spines to a pulling member. The basket-shaped electrode assembly has expanded arrangement in which the spines bow outwards and a collapsed arrangement in which the spines are arranged generally along a longitudinal axis of the catheter body.


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