ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,977, issued on July 29, was assigned to AtriCure Inc. (Mason, Ohio).
"Stabilized ablation systems and methods" was invented by Tamer Ibrahim (Danville, Calif.), Dwight P. Morejohn (Davis, Calif.), Michael J. Banchieri (Discovery Bay, Calif.), Ara Stephanian (Davis, Calif.), John D. Pavlidis (Los Altos, Calif.) and David K. Swanson (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system for ablating a tissue, the system comprising: (a) an ablation mechanism comprising a first electrode and an opposed second electrode, wherein the ablation mechanism is configured to receive a tissue between the first electrode and the second...