US Patent Issued to HistoSonics on April 14 for "Histotripsy systems and methods" (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,784, issued on April 14, was assigned to HistoSonics Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Histotripsy systems and methods" was invented by Alexander P. Duryea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ryan M. Miller (Saline, Mich.), Jonathan M. Cannata (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dejan Teofilovic (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zeljko Mladenovic (Orefield, Pa.), Aleksandra Rakic (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Joshua Stopek (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. Provided herein are systems and methods that provide efficacious non-invasive and minimally invasive therape...