US Patent Issued to Chelak Medical Solution on Dec. 30 for "Esophageal management system for use in displacing an esophagus during a medical procedure" (Kansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,898, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Chelak Medical Solution Inc. (Houston).

"Esophageal management system for use in displacing an esophagus during a medical procedure" was invented by Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy (Leawood, Kan.) and Jie Cheng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for managing an esophagus of a subject during a medical procedure, such as cardiac tissue ablation or bronchial tissue ablation. Managing the esophagus may include displacing the esophagus, imaging the esophagus, and/or measuring temperature at one or more locations inside the esophagus....