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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jonathan Kagan, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Graydon E Beatty, St. Paul, MN (US);
Jeffrey R Budd, St. Paul, MN (US);
Assignee:
Endocardial Therapeutics, Inc., St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128642 ; 607122 ; 29872 ;
Abstract
A mapping catheter assembly 10 including a flexible lead body 12 and a deformable lead body 14. A lumen 22 is provided to accept a reference catheter 18 which includes a distal tip electrode assembly 29. In use an array 16 of electrode sites are deformed into a spherical shape after the assembly is placed in a heart chamber. The reference electrode assembly 29 is advanced into contact with the heart wall to provide calibration information for the array 16.