US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Sept. 9 for "Methods and apparatus for selective tissue ablation" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,979, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Methods and apparatus for selective tissue ablation" was invented by Steven R. Mickelsen (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter systems and methods for the selective and rapid application of DC voltage to drive irreversible electroporation are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a voltage pulse generator and an electrode controller. The voltage pulse generator is configured to produce a pulsed voltage waveform. The electrode controller is configured to be operably coupled to the voltage pulse genera...