US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Aug. 25 for "Handheld pulsed field ablation generator" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,494, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Handheld pulsed field ablation generator" was invented by Steven V. Ramberg (North Oaks, Minn.), Daniel S. Cheek (Plymouth, Minn.), Steven J. Fraasch (Maple Grove, Minn.), Brian Howard (Minneapolis), John D. Norton (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Nicolas Coulombe (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device may include an electrosurgical hand piece. The electrosurgical hand piece may have a housing with a proximal end, a distal end, and a chamber proximate the proximal end. The chamber may be configured to releasably retain and electrically couple with a powe...