US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, President and Fellows of Harvard College on June 23 for "Methods and materials for tissue ablation" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,404, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and materials for tissue ablation" was invented by Rahmi Oklu (Chandler, Ariz.), Hassan Albadawi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Samir Mitragotri (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to methods and materials for tissue ablation. For example, methods for using a composition including one or more ionic liquids (e.g., a composition including a LATTE solution) for tissue ablation are provided. In some cases, a composition including one ...