US Patent Issued to 460Medical on May 13 for "Systems and methods for lesion formation and assessment" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,795, issued on May 13, was assigned to 460Medical Inc. (Weston, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for lesion formation and assessment" was invented by Terrance J. Ransbury (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Kenneth C. Armstrong (Cary, N.C.), Omar Amirana (Weston, Mass.) and Cinnamon Larson (Carrboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter for visualizing ablated tissue comprises a catheter body; a distal tip positioned at a distal end of the catheter body, the distal tip defining a illumination cavity, the distal tip having one or more openings for exchange of light energy between the illumination cavity and tissue; a light directing member dispo...