ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,185, issued on April 7, was assigned to Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Treatment system having generator and fluid transfer cartridge" was invented by James D. Mazzone (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), Robin Bek (Campbell, Calif.), Kristen Easterday (Mountain View, Calif.), Austin Hendricks (Union City, Calif.), Jeff Gamelsky (Palo Alto, Calif.), Venmathi Gunasekaran (Mountain View, Calif.), Ryan R. Donovan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ryan J. Hilaman (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment system includes a generator and a fluid transfer cartridge. The fluid transfer cartridge includes a...