US Patent Issued to DIGMA MEDICAL on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for nerve ablation in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,960, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DIGMA MEDICAL LTD. (Petah Tikva, Israel).

"Apparatus and method for nerve ablation in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract" was invented by Ilan Ben Oren (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter for real-time evaluation of duodenal ablation, the catheter including an expandable member configured to stretch the duodenal wall and to generate a fixed distance between a center of the catheter and the duodenal wall; a laser transmitting element coupled with the catheter body and configured to transmit a first laser beam and a second laser beam; wherein the first laser beam is config...