US Patent Issued to Liger Medical on Aug. 19 for "Colposcope with integrated patient management and thermal ablation functionality" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,099, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Liger Medical LLC (Lehi, Utah).

"Colposcope with integrated patient management and thermal ablation functionality" was invented by William Dean Wallace (Lehi, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for diagnosing and treating cervical precancer includes a handheld colposcope comprising a camera and screen configured to view and generate an image of a cervix. A thermal ablation probe is incorporated into the handheld colposcope and is configured to apply heat to the cervix in response to detection of cervical precancer by the handheld colposcope. In certain embodiments, a lens of the c...