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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sidney D Fleischman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas M Bourne, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dorin Panescu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David K Swanson, Mountain View, CA (US);
James G Whayne, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
EP Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 41 ; 606 42 ; 600374 ; 607122 ;
Abstract
Systems and associated methods position arrays of multiple emitters of ablating energy in straight or curvilinear positions in contact with tissue to form elongated lesion patterns. The elongated lesion patterns can continuous or interrupted, depending upon the orientation of the energy emitters.