ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,720, issued on May 12, was assigned to Heart Regeneration Technologies GmbH (Innsbruck, Austria).
"Device for generating shockwaves" was invented by Christian Dorfmuller (Rielasingen, Germany) and Johannes Holfeld (Innsbruck, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for generating shockwaves. The device comprises a pressure pulse source comprising a chamber housing defining a chamber (22) and a shockwave opening (21). The chamber (22) is configured to be filled with a liquid. The device comprises a plurality of electrodes disposed in the chamber (22) and configured to be coupled to a pulse-generation sy...