US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on March 31 for "Fluid-cooled low-profile microwave ablation probe with spherical ablation zone" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,948, issued on March 31, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Fluid-cooled low-profile microwave ablation probe with spherical ablation zone" was invented by Justin Patrick May (Austin, Texas) and Hojjatollah Fallahi (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave ablation probe includes a cable extending in an axial direction and also includes an antenna configured to deliver Radio Frequency (RF) energy. The probe includes a shell positioned radially outward of the cable and a choke electrically coupled to an outer conductor of the cable. The probe also includes a cooling tube positioned inside the...