US Patent Issued to Convergent Life Sciences on June 23 for "Method and apparatus for laser ablation under ultrasound guidance" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,093, issued on June 23, was assigned to Convergent Life Sciences Inc. (Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for laser ablation under ultrasound guidance" was invented by Dinesh Kumar (Roseville, Calif.), Amit Vohra (Roseville, Calif.) and Daniel S Sperling (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for minimally invasive laser ablation of a target tissue within a patient while sparing tissue within a safety zone proximate to the target tissue, comprising: guiding a laser fiber within a patient with a guidance tool; measuring a temperature within the target tissue and the safety zone based on an invasive and a non...