US Patent Issued to CardioFocus on June 24 for "Endoscopically guided ablation catheters with thermally resistant balloons" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,757, issued on June 24, was assigned to CardioFocus Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Endoscopically guided ablation catheters with thermally resistant balloons" was invented by Gerald Melsky (Lexington, Mass.), Lincoln Baxter (Centerville, Mass.) and Omar Colon (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation catheter that includes a shaft having a distal end and a balloon coupled to the shaft. The balloon has an inner surface and an opposite outer surface. The inner surface has a proximal region including a proximal balloon end, a main center region, and a distal region including a distal balloon end. The ablation catheter also i...