US Patent Issued to ELESTA on Oct. 20 for "Device and method for the treatment of cancerous lesions and the like" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,868, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ELESTA S.P.A. (Calenzano, Italy).

"Device and method for the treatment of cancerous lesions and the like" was invented by Leonardo Masotti (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), Luca Breschi (Vaiano, Italy), Tommaso Perretta (Calenzano, Italy) and Fabio Andreola (Calenzano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device (1; 5) comprises: a protective cannula (7); a tubular suction member (9) coaxially housable in the protective cannula (7); a catheter (21), coaxially housable in the tubular suction member (9) and adapted to internally contain an optical fiber (23). The catheter is equipped, at a distal en...