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Patent No.:

US 10349966 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019

Filed:

May. 25, 2018

Method for ablating body tissue

Applicant:

Vytronus, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hira V. Thapliyal, Los Altos, CA (US);

David A. Gallup, Alameda, CA (US);

James W. Arenson, Woodside, CA (US);

Assignee:

VytronUS, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Primary Examiner:

Aaron F Roane

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61N 7/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/22 (2006.01); A61B 18/24 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/320068 (2013.01); A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61N 7/02 (2013.01); A61N 7/022 (2013.01); A61B 17/2202 (2013.01); A61B 18/24 (2013.01); A61B 2017/003 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00106 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/22024 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00029 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0078 (2013.01);
Abstract

A cardiac ablation method including the following steps: inserting a treatment catheter into an atrium of a heart, the treatment catheter including an ultrasound emitter; positioning the ultrasound emitter to face heart tissue within the left atrium outside of a pulmonary vein; emitting ultrasound energy from the ultrasound emitter while rotating the ultrasound emitter about a rotation axis; and ablating heart tissue with the ultrasound energy to form a lesion outside of a pulmonary vein.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Thapliyal, Hira. (2019). Method for ablating body tissue (U.S. Patent No. 10349966). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10349966

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