ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,414, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HERMES INNOVATIONS LLC (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Tissue ablation systems and method" was invented by Akos Toth (Cupertino, Calif.) and Csaba Truckai (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue is treated using a radiofrequency power supply connected to an applicator having a chamber filled with an electrically non-conductive gas surrounded by a thin dielectric wall. A radiofrequency voltage is applied at a level sufficient to ionize the gas into a plasma and to capacitively couple the ionized plasma with the tissue to deliver radiofrequency current to ablate or otherwise treat the tissu...