ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,446, issued on June 17, 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: "Surgical systems and methods for administering an ablation treatment and other therapeutic or diagnostic protocols to a patient tissue involve a flexible stabilizer mechanism having an inner recess and an ablation mechanism coupled with the stabilizer mechani...