US Patent Issued to Gradient Denervation Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for applying energy to denervate a pulmonary artery" (Irish, French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,130, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Gradient Denervation Technologies SAS (Suresnes, France).

"Systems and methods for applying energy to denervate a pulmonary artery" was invented by David Amaoua (Versailles, France), Martin Grasse (Basel, Switzerland) and William Cannon (County Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system for ablation of tissue around a blood vessel, e.g., the pulmonary artery, to reduce neural activity of nerves surrounding the blood vessel. The catheter system includes an elongate shaft having a proximal portion coupled to a handle, and a distal portion. The distal portion includes a trans...