US Patent Issued to Medtronic CryoCath on Nov. 25 for "Contact pressure assessment for cryoballoon ablation catheters" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,427, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Medtronic CryoCath LP (Toronto).

"Contact pressure assessment for cryoballoon ablation catheters" was invented by Nicolas Coulombe (Anjou, Canada), Rachid Mahrouche (Cote St-Luc, Canada), Louis Jacob (Laval, Canada), Dan Wittenberger (Blainville, Canada), Martin Lacharite (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada) and Jean-Pierre Lalonde (Candiac, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ablating tissue includes positioning a treatment device proximate to a target tissue area. The treatment device has an expandable treatment element. The expandable treatment element is inflated with a refrigerant duri...