US Patent Issued to Medtronic Navigation on Oct. 7 for "Cooling fluid flow rate monitoring for laser interstitial thermal therapy" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,674, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Medtronic Navigation Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Cooling fluid flow rate monitoring for laser interstitial thermal therapy" was invented by Janardan Vaidyanathan (Thane-West, India), Rebecca Vincelette (Louisville, Colo.), Drew Wilson (Boulder, Colo.), Christine Drown (Louisville, Colo.), Marco Capote (Louisville, Colo.) and Shawn Santana (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods to verify a magnetic field phase drift and to check for proper function of a laser fiber cooling system during laser ablation therapy are disclosed. The laser fiber cooling system incl...