Patent ID: 9554723
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,A61N

Claim:
1. A medical catheter comprising: an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end and a longitudinal axis; two or more substrate pads spaced apart and bonded to the elongate shaft at the distal end, each substrate pad covering less than a circumference of the elongate shaft; an electrically responsive element disposed on each substrate pad; a first electrically conductive pathway connected to each electrically responsive element, each first electrically conductive pathway extending along the elongate shaft from a proximal region of the elongate shaft proximate the proximal end of the elongate shaft to its respective electrically responsive element; and a second electrically conductive pathway connected to each electrically responsive element, each second electrically conductive pathway extending along the elongate shaft from the proximal region of the elongate shaft proximate the proximal end of the elongate shaft to its respective electrically responsive element; wherein each electrically responsive element has its own first and second electrically conductive pathways spaced apart from the first and second electrically conductive pathways of an adjacent electrically responsive element.