ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,165, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Control methods and devices for energy delivery" was invented by Christopher J. Danek (San Carlos, Calif.), William J. Wizeman (Littleton, Colo.), Tim R. Dalbec (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gary S. Kaplan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control systems and methods for delivery of energy that may include control algorithms that prevent energy delivery if a fault is detected and may provide energy delivery to produce a substantially constant temperature at a delivery site. In some embodiments, the control systems and methods may...