US Patent Issued to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties on Aug. 19 for "System and method for estimating tissue heating of a target ablation zone for electrical-energy based therapies" (Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,268, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"System and method for estimating tissue heating of a target ablation zone for electrical-energy based therapies" was invented by Paulo A. Garcia (Somerville, Mass.), Christopher B. Arena (Blacksburg, Va.), Michael B. Sano (Cary, N.C.) and Rafael V. Davalos (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for modeling and for providing a graphical representation of tissue heating and electric field distributions for medical treatment devices that apply electrical treatment energy through one or a plura...