US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Dec. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for reducing leakage currents in cryo, radio-frequency, and pulsed-field ablation systems" (Minnesota, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,071, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Methods and apparatus for reducing leakage currents in cryo, radio-frequency, and pulsed-field ablation systems" was invented by Steven J. Fraasch (Maple Grove, Minn.), Trenton J. Rehberger (Minneapolis), Sara A. Frantz (Mounds View, Minn.), Kevin D. Gollon (Lakewood, Ohio) and Bryce W. Bunkers (Crystal, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for monitoring and actively reducing leakage currents flowing on patient applied parts used in ablation therapy. In an example, a signal-processing circuit connected between a toroidal-coil sensor and a sl...