ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,786, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Systems for ablating tissue" was invented by Thomas Bowen Sprinkle (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Sunil Udaya Simha Moda (Portage, Mich.), Brandon J. Morse (Vicksburg, Mich.), Andrew J. Kohtala (Galesburg, Mich.), Volker Sandow (Elzach, Germany), John Coleman Horton IV (Austin, Texas) and Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigated electrode assembly has a proximal portion with a proximal end and a distal portion with a distal end. The assembly includes a first conduit defining an irrigation channel and a second conduit, both of...