US Patent Issued to Clinical Laserthermia Systems on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and method for controlling immunostimulating laser thermotherapy" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,856, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Clinical Laserthermia Systems AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Apparatus and method for controlling immunostimulating laser thermotherapy" was invented by Karl-Goran Tranberg (Lund, Sweden) and Stephan Dymling (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for obtaining an anti-tumour immunologic response by thermotherapy of a treatment lesion covering at least a portion of a tumour is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a heating probe comprising an optical fiber and a cooling catheter. The optical fiber is inserted in the cooling catheter. Further the heating probe has a light emitting area, and...