ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,511, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INSIGHTEC LTD. (Tirat Carmel, Israel).
"Systems and methods for optimizing transskull acoustic treatment" was invented by Tal Tlusty (Zichron Ya'acov, Israel), Shuki Vitek (Haifa, Israel) and Eyal Zadicario (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Skull inhomogeneity may be quantified in accordance with the skull density measured in skull images acquired using a conventional imager; the quantified inhomogeneity may then be used to determine whether the patient is suitable for ultrasound treatment and/or determine parameters associated with the ultrasound transducer for optimizing tr...