ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,618, issued on June 10, was assigned to ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH (Tuebingen, Germany).
"Ablation probe" was invented by Volker Mayer (Tuebingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe that is particularly usable as a radio frequency ablation probe and comprises an inner cooling in order to keep the at least one electrode at the tissue wet and to avoid excessive heating. In the area of the electrode the hose wall of the hose supporting the electrode comprises an increased heat conductivity, whereas apart from that it has a comparably low heat conductivity outside of the electrode carrying distal end section. The increase of th...