ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,590, issued on June 30, was assigned to Arga Medtech SA (Epalinges, Switzerland).

"Ablation equipment for delivering non-thermal energy to treat target regions of tissue in organs and control method thereof" was invented by Randell L. Werneth (San Diego) and Marshall Sherman (Cardiff by the Sea, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is disclosed a composition comprising one or more calcium salts, for use in a treatment or augmenting treatment of non-thermal ablation, the treatment comprising: administering an effective amount of said composition to the subject via a systemic route of administration; delivering non-thermal ablat...