US Patent Issued to University of Georgia Research Foundation on Feb. 11 for "Wirelessly powered tissue ablation device" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,163, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc. (Athens, Ga.).

"Wirelessly powered tissue ablation device" was invented by Tsz Ho Tse (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Julian Malik Moore (Smyrna, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are wirelessly powered tissue ablation devices comprising an alternating magnetic field generator; an ablation probe comprising an ablation tip; a catheter comprising an opening at a tissue insertion end and a lumen extending along a length of the catheter to the catheter opening; and a magnetic field receiving coil configured to be electrically coupled to the ...