Patents by Inventor Garth Francis Constantine

Garth Francis Constantine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • 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
    Publication number: 20200129235
    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: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    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
  • ESTIMATION OF LESION SIZE
    Publication number: 20170014181
    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: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Erez Silberschein, Assaf Rubissa, Garth Francis Constantine, Hiroshi Nakagawa