ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,294, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUDAN UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Focused ultrasound treatment system based on ultrasound imaging" was invented by Kailiang Xu (Shanghai), Yapeng Fu (Shanghai), Junjin Yu (Shanghai), Xingyi Guo (Shanghai), Shaoyuan Yan (Shanghai), Dean Ta (Shanghai) and Weiqi Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focused ultrasound treatment system has: a focused ultrasound unit configured to emit focused ultrasound waves to a focal region to perform treatment; an ultrasound imaging unit configured to, after treatment emit imaging ultrasonic waves to an imaging region and receive corresponding echoes, and...