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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:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
David K. Swanson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas Bourne, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sidney D. Fleischman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dorin Panescu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James G. Whayne, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
EP Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/736 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/736 ;
Abstract
Systems and associated methods form larger and deeper lesion patterns by shaping a support body with multiple electrodes in ways that increase the density of the electrodes per given tissue area. The support body can carry either elongated, continuous electrodes or arrays of non-contiguous, segmented electrodes.