US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION, THE ASAN FOUNDATION on Sept. 9 for "Radio frequency ablation medical device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,975, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ULSAN FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY COOPERATION (Ulsan, South Korea) and THE ASAN FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Radio frequency ablation medical device" was invented by Jung-hoon Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sang-soo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Daesung Ryu (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency ablation medical device includes a guide wire; a catheter configured to be movable to a lesion site of a tissue along the guide wire and having at least one electrode configured to generate heat according to an application of power; and a stent configured t...