US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Nov. 3 for "Integrated imaging ablation catheter" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,669, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Integrated imaging ablation catheter" was invented by Andrew M. Rollins (Cleveland), Xiaowei Zhao (Cleveland) and Reza Mohammadpour (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A described example provides an ablation catheter including an elongate tubular body having spaced apart proximal and distal ends and a lumen extending through the elongate tubular body. An ablation electrode extends from the distal end of the elongate tubular body to terminate in a distal end thereof. An elongate optical imaging probe extends through the lumen of the elongate tub...