US Patent Issued to Novuson Surgical on April 21 for "Transducer for therapeutic ultrasound apparatus and method" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,180, issued on April 21, was assigned to Novuson Surgical Inc..

"Transducer for therapeutic ultrasound apparatus and method" was invented by Stuart B. Mitchell (Bothell, Wash.), Eric Hadford (Bothell, Wash.) and Daniel Baker (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various devices related to a therapeutic ultrasound device for use during a medical procedure to cauterize tissue are disclosed. The high intensity focused ultrasound device can include a transducer for producing high intensity focused ultrasound. The transducer includes a shell configured to receive an acoustic stack. The acoustic stack includes a piezoelectric lay...