ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,671, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DFine Inc. (South Jordan, Utah).
"Tumor ablation devices and related methods" was invented by Craig Purdy (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dan Balbierz (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spinal tumor ablation devices and related systems and methods are disclosed. Some spinal tumor ablation devices include electrodes that are fixedly offset from one another. Some spinal tumor ablation devices include a thermal energy delivery probe that has at least one temperature sensor coupled thereto. The position of the at least one temperature sensor relative to other components of the spinal tumor ...