US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Oct. 27 for "Directed pulsed electric field ablation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,264, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Directed pulsed electric field ablation" was invented by Mark T. Stewart (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Brian T. Howard (Minneapolis) and Timothy G. Laske (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for directed pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation are disclosed. In one aspect, an irreversible electroporation (IRE) system includes processing circuitry configured to select a first set of electrodes positioned to produce a first electric field in a first direction in a region of tissue of a patient, and select a second set of electrodes positioned to ...