US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on March 3 for "Apparatuses and methods for ablation treatments including probes with handle heating" (Texas, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,433, issued on March 3, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for ablation treatments including probes with handle heating" was invented by Hongxuan Zhang (Austin, Texas), Vineel Vallapureddy (Plymouth, Minn.) and Ryan Lee Medema (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe for performing a cryoablation treatment that includes a handle with a heater configured to heat a fluid and a needle connected to the handle and extending therefrom to a distal end. The needle includes a pathway configured to move the fluid from the handle toward the distal end to heat the needle." ...