US Patent Issued to ZIDAN MEDICAL on Sept. 9 for "Devices and methods for treating lung tumors" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,978, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ZIDAN MEDICAL INC. (New York).

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

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 concentration ...