Patents Assigned to University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
  • Estimation of lesion size
    Patent number: 11304752
    Abstract: A method, consisting of ablating tissue for a time period, measuring a contact force applied during the time period, and measuring a power used during the time period. The method further includes ceasing ablating the tissue when a desired size of a lesion produced in the tissue, as estimated using an integral over the time period of a product of the contact force raised to a first non-unity exponent and the power raised to a second non-unity exponent, is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Erez Silberschein, Assaf Rubissa, Garth Francis Constantine, Hiroshi Nakagawa
  • Estimation of lesion size
    Patent number: 10517670
    Abstract: A method, consisting of ablating tissue for a time period, measuring a contact force applied during the time period, and measuring a power used during the time period. The method further includes ceasing ablating the tissue when a desired size of a lesion produced in the tissue, as estimated using an integral over the time period of a product of the contact force raised to a first non-unity exponent and the power raised to a second non-unity exponent, is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd., University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Erez Silberschein, Assaf Rubissa, Garth Francis Constantine, Hiroshi Nakagawa