ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,807, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adagio Medical Inc. (Laguna Hills, Calif.).
"Cryoablation element with conductive liner" was invented by Alexei Babkin (Dana Point, Calif.), Thomas Chien (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Kevin D. Rupp (Irvine, Calif.) and Steven W. Kovalcheck (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation apparatus for creating a lesion in target tissue, the ablation apparatus including a handle, an elongate shaft extending from the handle to a distal tip, where the shaft includes a first portion, an ablation portion distal to the first portion and having an outer sheath, and at least one ablation energy elemen...