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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2016
Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dorin Panescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jessi E. Johnson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Eric Andrew Schultheis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Josef Vincent Koblish, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to some embodiments, a medical instrument (for example, an ablation device) comprises an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end, an energy delivery member positioned at the distal end of the elongate body, a first plurality of temperature-measurement devices carried by or positioned within the energy delivery member, the first plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member, and a second plurality of temperature-measurement devices positioned proximal to a proximal end of the energy delivery member, the second plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member.