Patent ID: 11857250
Assignee: MEDTRONIC ABLATION FRONTIERS LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A medical device, comprising:
a handle assembly;
an elongate catheter body coupled to the handle assembly and having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a longitudinal axis, the elongate catheter body defining a guide wire lumen therethrough;
a distal assembly defined by the distal portion of the elongate catheter body, the distal assembly including a flexible carrier arm coupled to the elongate catheter body, the carrier arm defining an aperture and having a plurality of electrodes and being transitionable between a substantially linear configuration and a substantially semi-circular configuration, all of the plurality of electrodes in the substantially semi-circular configuration being coplanar in a plane that is substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the elongate catheter body;
a guide wire extending through the guide wire lumen and the aperture, and configured to direct the distal assembly into a desired position.