US Patent Issued to Varian Medical Systems on March 31 for "Combination probe for cryoablation and thermal ablation and related methods" (Texas, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,938, issued on March 31, was assigned to Varian Medical Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Combination probe for cryoablation and thermal ablation and related methods" was invented by Hongxuan Zhang (Austin, Texas), Vineel Vallapureddy (Plymouth, Minn.), Ryan Medema (Georgetown, Texas), Sean Doll (Cedar Park, Texas), Elizabeth Campo (Austin, Texas) and Kenneth Zapalac (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination ablation probe includes a shell configured to be positioned at a target tissue in a patient and a conduit positioned inside the shell. The conduit is configured to supply a cryo-fluid toward a tip of the p...