ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,427, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pulnovo Medical (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. (Wuxi, China).

"Multi-pole synchronous pulmonary artery radiofrequency ablation catheter" was invented by Shaoliang Chen (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-pole synchronous pulmonary artery radiofrequency ablation catheter may comprise a control handle, a catheter body and an annular ring. One end of the catheter body may be flexible, and the flexible end of the catheter body may be connected to the annular ring. The other end of the catheter body may be connected to the control handle. A shape memory wire may be arranged in the annular ring. On...