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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2018
Innoblative Designs, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Robert F. Rioux, Ashland, MA (US);
Alyssa Bailey, Chicago, IL (US);
Tyler Wanke, Chicago, IL (US);
Ryan M. Bean, Westminster, MA (US);
Innoblative Designs, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a minimally invasive articulating configured to be advanced through tortuous anatomy, particularly within a lung, and subsequently deliver at least two separately deployable ablation devices to a target site located at a bifurcated section of the lung (i.e., at a bronchial airway bifurcation). The pair of ablation devices are separately steerable towards respective first and second pathways extending from the bifurcation, such that each of the ablation devices can be positioned on either side of a target tissue proximate the bifurcation. The first and second ablation devices include expandable distal tips configured to transition to a deployed configuration, in which each expands in diameter and is configured to apply a degree of compression and/or RF energy emission to target lung tissue (i.e., diseased tissue, such as cancer or emphysema-related damaged tissue) for subsequent ablation thereof.