ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,423, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adagio Medical Inc. (Laguna Hills, Calif.).
"Multi-modality ablation catheter having a shape memory stylet" was invented by Kevin D. Rupp (Irvine, Calif.), Alexei V. Babkin (Dana Point, Calif.), Shirzad Shahriari (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Hou Man Chong (La Palma, Calif.), Pedram Nourian (Tustin, Calif.) and Faysal S. Ahmed (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodality or hybrid ablation system includes an ablation apparatus for creating a lesion in target tissue. The ablation apparatus has an ablation shaft including a handle, a first portion, an ablation portion, distal tip, at le...