US Patent Issued to INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE), CENTRE LEON BERARD, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1 on July 21 for "Methods and systems for aligning an imaging ultrasound probe with a therapeutic ultrasound probe" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,508, issued on July 21, was assigned to INSERM (INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE) (Paris), CENTRE LEON BERARD (Lyons, France) and UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1 (Villeurbanne, France).

"Methods and systems for aligning an imaging ultrasound probe with a therapeutic ultrasound probe" was invented by David Melodelima (Lyons, France) and Sophie Cambronero (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods using high intensity focused ultrasounds (HIFU) guided by ultrasound imaging often require an imaging ultrasound probe to be embedded within a HIFU transducer, in order for both probes to have ...