US Patent Issued to Covidien on July 15 for "Microwave ablation devices" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,381, issued on July 15, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Microwave ablation devices" was invented by William J. Dickhans (Longmont, Colo.), Jiagui Li (Shanghai), Zhiwei Lin (Shanghai), Darion R. Peterson (Longmont, Colo.) and Wei Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave ablation device includes a cable assembly, a feedline, and a transmission line. The cable assembly is configured to connect to an energy source. The feedline is in electrical communication with the cable assembly and includes a first temperature sensor. The first temperature sensor is disposed at a first axial location along a length ...