ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,371, issued on March 3, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"System and method for displaying ablation zone progression" was invented by Ryan S. Sohlden (Lyons, Colo.), Kaylen J. Haley (North Kingstown, R.I.) and Casey M. Ladtkow (Erie, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ablation system includes an ablation device configured to ablate a target, an imaging device, and a computing device. The imaging device is configured to capture images of a surgical site, in real time, including the target and the ablation device positioned relative to the target. The computing device includes a display configured to display a user ...