US Patent Issued to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM), Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CENTRE LEON BERARD on May 19 for "Therapeutic ultrasonic transducers for the emission of focused ultrasound waves" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,545, issued on May 19, was assigned to INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM) (Paris), Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Villeurbanne, France) and CENTRE LEON BERARD (Lyons, France).

"Therapeutic ultrasonic transducers for the emission of focused ultrasound waves" was invented by David Melo De Lima (Lyons, France) and Sophie Cambronero (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to ultrasonic transducers for therapeutic ultrasound techniques, such as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) techniques. A challenge is to design ultrasound transducers capable of delivering the require...