US Patent Issued to Zidan Medical on Oct. 27 for "Systems, devices and methods for treating lung tumor" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,258, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Zidan Medical Inc. (New York).

"Systems, devices and methods for treating lung tumor" was invented by Dorin Panescu (San Jose, Calif.), Shashank Raina (Santa Clara, Calif.), Simplicio Velilla (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark Gelfand (New York) and Mark Leung (Duncan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to treat a human patient including: advancing a catheter through a natural airway of the patient and positioning a distal portion of the catheter in the natural airway of a lung of the patient to a target region in the lung, injecting a conductive hypertonic saline solution having a concent...