US Patent Issued to 460Medical on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for lesion formation and assessment" (North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,654, issued on Nov. 3, 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.) and Omar Amirana (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for optical tissue interrogation are provided. In some embodiments, a catheter for visualizing ablated tissue is provided, and can include a catheter body, and a distal tip positioned at a distal end of the catheter body. The distal tip can have one or more openings for exchange of light energy between the distal tip of the catheter and tissue."

The patent was filed on ...