ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,277, issued on May 6, was assigned to AquaBeam LLC (Hillsborough, Calif.).
"Tissue resection with pressure sensing" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Rodney C. Perkins (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prostate treatment using fluid stream to resect prostate tissue, thereby relieving symptoms of conditions such as BPH, prostatitis, and prostatic carcinoma. A device having a fluid delivery element is positioned within a lumen of the urethra within the prostate. A fluid stream is directed outwardly from the fluid delivery element toward a wall of the urethral lumen. The fluid delivery element is m...