US Patent Issued to AFREEZE on March 24 for "Cryoablation catheter assembly, cryoablation system and method" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,456, issued on March 24, was assigned to AFREEZE GMBH (Innsbruck, Austria).

"Cryoablation catheter assembly, cryoablation system and method" was invented by Gerald Fischer (Vols, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cryoablation catheter assembly is described. The assembly comprises (a) an inlet for receiving an input flow of refrigerant fluid, (b) a cryo-applicator, (c) a flow splitter configured to split the input flow into a therapeutic flow portion and a precooling flow portion, and (d) a precooling arrangement configured to precool the therapeutic flow portion and guide the precooled therapeutic flow portion towards the cry...