US Patent Issued to HistoSonics on March 31 for "Histotripsy systems and methods" (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,261, issued on March 31, was assigned to HistoSonics Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

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

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...