US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 18 for "Tissue ablation using a medical device" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,158, issued on March 18, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tissue ablation using a medical device" was invented by Timothy A. Ostroot (Cokato, Minn.) and John A. Zanussi (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example medical device is disclosed. The medical device includes a catheter shaft including a distal end portion, wherein the distal end portion includes an ablation assembly. The ablation assembly includes an expandable frame including a base, an end region and a plurality of struts extending between the base and the end region, the struts defining a plurality of apertures along the f...