US Patent Issued to AXORA MEDICAL on Sept. 8 for "Tissue extraction devices and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,935, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AXORA MEDICAL INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Tissue extraction devices and methods" was invented by John H. Shadduck (Menlo Park, Calif.), Aaron Germain (Campbell, Calif.), Csaba Truckai (Saratoga, Calif.), Kyle Klein (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael D. Walker (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tissue may be cut and extracted from an interior location in a patient's body using a probe or tool which both effects cutting and causes vaporization of a liquid or other fluid to propel the cut tissue through an extraction lumen of the cutting device. The cutting may be achieved using an electrosu...