US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on Aug. 5 for "Apparatuses and methods for the control and optimization of ice formation during cryoablation treatments" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,897, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for the control and optimization of ice formation during cryoablation treatments" was invented by Hongxuan Zhang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a cryoablation treatment may include positioning a plurality of measurement points in predetermined locations relative to a target tissue in a patient and obtaining ice formation measurement information from the plurality of measurement points. The method may also include comparing the ice formation measurement information to a predetermined ice...