US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for rapid and selective tissue ablation with cooling" (Iowa, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,873, issued on March 17, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for rapid and selective tissue ablation with cooling" was invented by Steven R. Mickelsen (Iowa City, Iowa), Raju Viswanathan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Allan Zingeler (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, tools and methods are disclosed for the selective and rapid application of DC voltage to drive irreversible electroporation, with the system controller capable of being configured to apply voltages to independently selected subsets of electrodes and capable of generating at least one control signal...