US Patent Issued to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems on March 25 for "Systems and methods for detecting leakage currents in high-frequency ablation systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,986, issued on March 25, was assigned to Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting leakage currents in high-frequency ablation systems" was invented by Seil Oh (Dallas), Binesh Balasingh (Prosper, Texas), William Winstrom (Leander, Texas) and Simran Singh (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting leakage currents in radio-frequency (RF) ablation systems. An RF generator may be configured to disable an electrical return path from a patient to a ground terminal. The RF generator may also be configured to apply an el...