US Patent Issued to University of Iowa Research Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Catheters, catheter systems, and methods for ablating a tissue region" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,411, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Catheters, catheter systems, and methods for ablating a tissue region" was invented by Steven Richard Mickelsen (Iowa Clty, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A percutaneous catheter system for use within the human body and an ablation catheter for ablating a selected tissue region within the body of a subject. The percutaneous catheter system can include two catheters that are operatively coupled to one another by magnetic coupling through a tissue structure. The ablation catheter can include electrodes positioned within a central por...