US Patent Issued to Stratus Medical on Oct. 20 for "Systems for radiofrequency neurotomy" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,940, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Stratus Medical LLC (Magnolia, Texas).

"Systems for radiofrequency neurotomy" was invented by Robert E. Wright (Clayton, Australia) and Scott A. Brandt (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for spinal radio frequency neurotomy. Systems include needles capable of applying RF energy to target volumes within a patient. Such target volumes may contain target medial branch nerves along vertebrae or rami proximate the sacrum. Such procedures may be used to ablate or cauterize a portion of the targeted nerve, thus blocking the ability of the nerve to transmit signals to the centra...