US Patent Issued to HistoSonics on Jan. 20 for "Histotripsy acoustic and patient coupling systems and methods" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,976, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HistoSonics Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Histotripsy acoustic and patient coupling systems and methods" was invented by Joshua Stopek (Plymouth, Minn.), Jonathan M. Cannata (Plymouth, Minn.), Justin S. Grumbir (Plymouth, Minn.) and Thomas P. Crowley (Plymouth, Minn.).

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 therapeutic, diagnostic and research procedures. In particular, provided herein are...