US Patent Issued to ASAHI INTECC on July 14 for "Plasma ablation system and plasma guide wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,222, issued on July 14, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Plasma ablation system and plasma guide wire" was invented by Yotaro Nishio (Seto, Japan), Takaaki Magara (Seto, Japan), Shumpei Yoshitake (Seto, Japan), Shota Mihara (Seto, Japan) and Kensuke Sakata (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma ablation system includes a plasma guide wire having a conductive first electrode formed on a distal end portion, a catheter having a conductive second electrode formed on a distal end side and a lumen through which the plasma guide wire is inserted, and a radio frequency (RF) generator electrically connected ...