ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,466, issued on March 24, was assigned to Arga Medtech SA (Epalinges, Switzerland).

"Ablation assembly to treat target regions of tissue in organs" was invented by Randell L. Werneth (San Diego), David Zarbatany (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Ricardo David Roman (Chula Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ablation assembly to treat target regions of a tissue in organs comprising: an ablation catheter comprising an elongate shaft having a longitudinal main direction (X-X), said elongate shaft comprising at least a shaft distal portion, said shaft distal portion comprising a shaft distal portion...