US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on Feb. 17 for "Electrical stimulation with thermal treatment or thermal monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,698, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Electrical stimulation with thermal treatment or thermal monitoring" was invented by Brian L. Schmidt (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Benjamin Keith Stein (Shoreview, Minn.), Keith R. Maile (New Brighton, Minn.), William J. Linder (Golden Valley, Minn.) and Aleksandra Kharam (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to medical devices and methods for using the same to treat cancerous tumors within a bodily tissue. A medical device system is included having an electric field generating circuit configured to generat...