ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,260, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Biocompatibles UK Ltd. (Camberley, Great Britain).
"Flexible cryoprobe" was invented by Satish Ramadhyani (Minneapolis), Graig Kveen (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Harishankar Natesan (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryoablation tool may include a catheter. The catheter may have a shaft having: a proximal end, a distal end, a shaft wall extending between the proximal end and the distal end, the shaft wall having an outer surface and an inner surface and a vacuum gap defined therebetween that forms a vacuum chamber, the inner surface of the shaft wall being gas permeable, a shaft lumen b...