US Patent Issued to Covidien on Nov. 4 for "Thermal heating element for use with endometrial ablation" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,425, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Thermal heating element for use with endometrial ablation" was invented by James D. Allen IV (Broomfield, Colo.) and William E. Robinson (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for endometrial ablation includes a selectively expandable bladder configured for insertion through a cervical canal of a patient and into a patient's cervix. The selectively expandable bladder defines an interior volume for receiving a thermally conductive medium which, when introduced into the interior volume, expands the selectively expandable bladder against the uterine ...