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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2013
Asthmatx, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher J. Danek, San Carlos, CA (US);
Michael Biggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Keith M. Burger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Loomas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Thomas Keast, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dave Haugaard, San Jose, CA (US);
Asthmatx, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
This relates to treating reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and more particularly, to exchanging energy with airway tissue such as that found in human lungs. This exchange of energy reduces the ability of the airways to constrict, reduces the resistance within the airway to the flow of air through the airway, reduces mucus plugging of the airways, and/or increases the airway diameter. This energy exchange also may reduce the ability of the lung to produce at least one of the symptoms of reversible obstructive pulmonary disease.