US Patent Issued to Veran Medical Technologies on June 17 for "Systems and methods for monitoring ablation progress using linear EBUS data" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,568, issued on June 17, was assigned to Veran Medical Technologies Inc. (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for monitoring ablation progress using linear EBUS data" was invented by Christopher Lee (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented for treating targeted tissue using cryoablation. A linear endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) device is positioned adjacent the targeted tissue and is used to guide a percutaneously inserted cryoprobe into the targeted tissue. The EBUS device is partially rotated in order to create multiple image slices that are combined together. To overcome the acoustic shadow created b...