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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2018
Medtronic Ablation Frontiers Llc, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Mark T. Stewart, Lino Lakes, MN (US);
Mark Allen Benscoter, Dellwood, MN (US);
Jon Virgil Evans, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Timothy G. Laske, Shoreview, MN (US);
Gonzalo Martinez, Mendota Heights, MN (US);
Medtronic Ablation Frontiers LLC, Minneapolis, MN;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for improved mapping and/or ablation of a tissue. The device may generally include an elongate body and a distal assembly affixed to the elongate body that includes a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping region and a selectively conductive ablation region that is conductive of high-frequency current and substantially non-conductive of low-frequency current. Alternatively, the device may generally include a treatment electrode having a conductive mapping or ablation region and a region that is coated with an electrically insulated but thermally conductive layer.