US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on July 28 for "Pump and cassette system for use in microwave ablation" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,856, issued on July 28, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Pump and cassette system for use in microwave ablation" was invented by Steve Jester (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Paul Joseph Hattan (Minneapolis), Tim Bachman (Saint Paul, Minn.), Matt Goulet (Palo Alto, Calif.), Logan Ernster (Palo Alto, Calif.), Charlie Weber (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jonathan Nath (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cooling an ablation probe includes a cassette receptacle configured to accept a cassette including a supply tube for supplying a coolant to the ablation probe. The apparatus also includes a...