US Patent Issued to Ablative Solutions on July 8 for "Apparatus for effective ablation and nerve sensing associated with denervation" (Michigan, New Jersey, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,051, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ablative Solutions Inc. (Wakefield, Mass.).

"Apparatus for effective ablation and nerve sensing associated with denervation" was invented by David R. Fischell (Fair Haven, N.J.), Tim A. Fischell (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Vartan Ghazarossian (Menlo Park, Calif.), Steven Almany (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Michael Sasha John (Larchmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular catheter for nerve activity ablation and/or sensing includes one or more needles advanced through supported guide tubes (needle guiding elements) which expand to contact the interior surface of the wall of the renal ar...