Tumor ablation needle
CA 2414890 A1 · Owner: Schaefer, Dean A. · Inventors: Paulk, David; Schaefer, Dean A.; Sherry, John
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for utilizing energy such as radio frequency (RF) energy, to treat defined areas of tissue and more particularly to ablate tumors with RF energy through the sue of a needle (43) having a spreading array of individually traversing conductive tines (48) which are independently positioned and activated.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed July 6, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 6, 2021.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 6, 2023.
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