US Patent Issued to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Electro-thermal therapy for the treatment of diseased or unwanted tissue" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,952, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Electro-thermal therapy for the treatment of diseased or unwanted tissue" was invented by Michael Benjamin Sano (Cary, N.C.) and Christopher Carl Fesmire (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing electrothermal therapy (ETT) includes inserting one or more electrodes into a target tissue, inserting one or more temperature sensors into the target tissue, selecting a pulse waveform for a plurality of electrical pulses, and delivering to the target tissue the plurality of electrical pulses having the selected pulse waveform th...