US Patent Issued to IKOMED TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "System for treating unwanted tissue" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,236, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IKOMED TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Vancouver, Canada).

"System for treating unwanted tissue" was invented by Kar-Pan Wong (Vancouver, Canada), Eran Elizur (Vancouver, Canada), Evan Goodacre (Vancouver, Canada), Susanna Kim Wolff (Vancouver, Canada) and Daniel Gelbart (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology may be applied to selectively heat one or more diseased areas in the lung while limiting heating to the healthy area and surrounding tissue. This heating provides a therapeutic effect. The selective heating of diseased tissues may be achieved by exposing the lung to an e...