US Patent Issued to Fractyl Health on May 20 for "Electrical energy ablation systems, devices and methods for the treatment of tissue" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,185, issued on May 20, was assigned to Fractyl Health Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Electrical energy ablation systems, devices and methods for the treatment of tissue" was invented by Jay Caplan (Belmont, Mass.), Harith Rajagopalan (Wellesley Hills, Mass.) and J. Christopher Flaherty (Nottingham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for ablating target tissue of a patient with electrical energy is provided. An elongate shaft includes a proximal portion and a distal portion, and a radially expandable element is attached to the distal portion. An ablation element for delivering electrical energy to target tissue is mounted to the...