ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,120, issued on April 7, was assigned to COSWAVE MEDICAL INC. (Richmond, Canada).
"Water-cooled flexible microwave ablation probe" was invented by Peng Zhang (Vancouver, Canada), Ting Yang (Richmond, Canada) and Yixin Yang (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a water-cooled microwave ablation probe are disclosed. The probe comprises a feed cable and an antenna with a radiator, a reflector and a dielectric material therein between. An outer sheath with a flexible tubular body encases the feed cable and portion of the antenna. A front-end of the outer sheath is connected to the antenna such that the radiating head...